Sekar requested personal involvement before Rodriguez had finished assigning the investigation team, and he agreed without requiring extensive justification. The market sat three kilometers from the plaza where she'd walked 287,000 floor tiles every year since Year 2. He understood, without her needing to explain it fully, why watching a frightened stranger occupy that ground for ninety seconds made this something she needed to examine directly rather than through secondhand reports.
Rama and Nakamura traveled with her. Dr. Chen's forensic team arrived separately, equipment already calibrated from a week of preparation that had, until now, produced nothing to calibrate it against.
