~LYRA'S POV~
Ari's information held up.
Cade verified the first name within two days. The second and third within five. The fourth took longer, the contacts had positioned themselves carefully and had been operating at a remove from the main structure, harder to trace but not impossible once you had the shape of what you were looking for.
Eren dismantled it over two weeks.
That was the word for it, I decided, watching the reports come in: dismantled. Not confronted, not raided, not neutralised in any way that made noise. Just methodically removed, piece by piece, with the quiet completeness of someone who had decided a structure needed to not exist anymore and had set about making that true.
