Kendrick found out about the Voss family's full history at seven in the morning.
Not from Sandra. From Daniel, who had spent the weekend pulling everything he could find on the Voss designation claims and had sent a forty-page summary at six fifty-eight with a subject line that said simply: Read this before you do anything.
Kendrick read it over coffee at his kitchen table.
The Voss family had filed 14C inquiries four times in the past thirty years.
Four times.
Different prime omegas. Different circumstances. Different registry jurisdictions. But the same provision, the same language, the same careful legal architecture of historical interest applied with the precision of a family that had been doing this long enough to know exactly which words the system responded to.
Of the four previous inquiries, three had resulted in successful claims.
Kendrick set his coffee down.
He read that line again.
Three successful claims.
