Jessy had processed that slowly.
"The new soldier from the academy," she had said, in the tone of someone building a story as they received it. "Who got access to the trial bows by working through the bureaucracy..."
"Exactly."
"And the cost of the bows and rune arrows? Finch and Theodore are going to interrogate me until the end of the world…"
"Castle's military support, trial equipment. I already filed the paperwork with Larissa's help to make it look correct in the records."
Jessy had looked at him with the face of someone who knew the story had more layers than were being described, and who had decided that the undescribed layers were, in this particular case, the fair price for the part that was being described.
"All right, leave it with me," she had said.
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The bows arrived at the southwest sector through the correct channels, with the correct documentation, and with Ren Patinder's name nowhere on any of it.
