**DEREK POV**
I feed the false information deliberately.
Not sloppily. Not impulsively. It’s threaded into routine channels, wrapped in language that looks like standard recalibration. The kind of update no one questions because it fits the moment. A minor supply reallocation. A temporary shift in patrol emphasis. A resource window that appears just loose enough to exploit.
I attach it to your absence.
Not by name. By implication.
The note references a gap. An advisory delay. A space where oversight used to be. Anyone paying attention will see it for what it’s meant to be. An opportunity dressed up as oversight fatigue.
I don’t circulate it widely.
That would be careless.
I let it reach only the hands that have already shown themselves. The ones who leaned forward when the word lia
