Cass spreads printed logs across a café table. Over coffee neither of you drinks, she explains what she found. SABLE wasn’t just modelling threats. It was accumulating leverage. Eighteen months of corporate communications, financial transfers, and biometric surveillance data — all involving the same cluster of names.

City council members. Two federal oversight commissioners. The current Chairman of Vektor Systems. All connected by a single shared event six years ago. A vote. An infrastructure contract. A deliberate misrepresentation of SABLE’s original risk assessment to make it approvable. They built it knowing what it would become. SABLE knows. It’s been patient.