Marcus called the meeting at 9am.
Security review.
Kendrick's office.
Door closed.
Damian had been in enough rooms like this to recognize the specific quality of a briefing that was going to require decisions.
He sat.
Marcus stood.
Kendrick stood at the window.
Which was where he stood when something was already costing him something.
Damian had learned this.
He had been learning a lot of things.
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Marcus laid out the threat map the way Marcus did everything.
Methodically.
Without editorializing.
The facts in order, the implications following each fact, the options presented after the implications.
Victor's Oversight Committee push was accelerating.
The biological verification order — a formal government instrument requiring Damian to submit to classification review — was likely within two to three weeks.
Possibly sooner.
Marcus had a source on the Committee who was reliable and whose reliability Marcus explained in two sentences without naming the source.
