The logistics executive separates the group, directing Jostan, Rodney, and the courier into a quiet records annex. Orin remains outside at the glass desk, monitoring the office systems through a stolen administrative feed.
The Logistics Executive
No weapons on the table. No edits to the ledger. Give me one reason to treat this as evidence instead of an intrusion.
Rodney leans over the handwritten pages without touching them. Her sunglasses reflect columns of names, shipment weights, and corrections written in several inks.
The Frightened Courier
My name is Kellan Rusk. The entries stayed handwritten because the archive system rejected every digital copy as contaminated.
The Frightened Courier
The paper was kept by a records supervisor who believed the network was rewriting transfers after they happened. She gave it to me before her access disappeared.
Orin
I am seeing three overlapping authorization chains. One ends here, one points toward Dock Nine, and the third is trying to erase its own origin.
Rodney
Then trust starts with the paper. Jostan brought the contradiction into the room instead of selling it to the highest bidder.
✓ Quest Accepted
Establish a reliable account of the ledger's origin