Divorced by Dawn, Queen by Dusk — Book Two: The Blood Crown
Chapter Ten: Two Traitors
Tyler found the second leak on day eleven.
He found it the way he found most things — not dramatically, not through a single decisive trace, but through the accumulation of small anomalies that individually meant nothing and collectively meant everything. A notification routing that passed through the wrong server. A response time on a trustee alert that was three seconds faster than the system latency allowed for, which meant the information had been received before the formal notification — meaning someone had a parallel feed.
He followed the parallel feed back to its source. It took four hours. The source was a non-voting observer position on the trustee charter's notification roll. A position that
