“It doesn’t need to know the whole system,” Jaylen said, tapping the cardboard. “It just needs to know who’s next to it and whether they’re telling the truth.”
Wendell looked at Lorna.
She had gone very still.
The sentence had struck her too.
By evening, Mara sent the first file.
Wendell opened it on his laptop at the kitchen table while Jaylen and Lorna watched.
The Georgia report began exactly as he feared: sanitized language, vague conclusions, fault assigned to improper maintenance and employee error.
Then Mara sent the second file.
The unedited one.
There was Caleb Tate’s name.
There was his warning.
False safe readings in heat-stressed battery modules.
Recommend immediate shutdown pending sensor audit.
Wendell scrolled.
Someone had overridden the recommendation.
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