Nobody slept much after the breach.
The facility spent the remaining hours before dawn in a state of controlled chaos, staff moving through the lower levels documenting the incident, Ashworth locked in what sounded like a tense conversation with Corvin behind a closed office door that Victor made no attempt to eavesdrop on, mostly because Seraphina was already doing it for both of them.
"They're arguing about timeline," she reported quietly, rejoining the group in the waiting area. "Corvin wants to slow down, run a proper investigation into what accelerated the corruption. Ashworth wants to move immediately."
"Move where?" Caleb asked.
"Back to the Dark Forest, I'd guess."
