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I stare at the map.

"OB6 isn't stealing from five empires independently."

"They're stealing from the places where we touch."

The sentence settles heavily. That is why nobody saw it. Every family would audit inward, but OB6 operates in the seams.

I begin adding totals.

Real estate first. Then shipping. Foreign exchange. Investment management. Loan servicing. The numbers climb so quickly that I assume I've duplicated something. I check, but there’s no duplication, and I include only the transactions I can verify.

Seventy-eight million.

Ninety-four.

One hundred and twenty-six.

Adrianos stops talking, but I keep going.

One hundred and eighty-three.

Two hundred and eleven.

The room seems to shrink around the screens.

"That's verified?" he asks.

"Conservatively."

"Meaning?"

"I'm excluding anything I can't connect through at least two independent points."

"How much if you include probable transactions?"

I don't answer immediately; instead, I change the parameters, and the spreadsheet recalculates.

Three hundred and sixty-eight million.

Adrianos reads the figure without moving.

"Over what period?"

"What I can see? Just under nine years."

"Petros wasn't involved that long."

"No. Which means Petros inherited part of the mechanism or entered it later."

I search farther backward, but records begin degrading. Companies merge. Banks change systems. Data becomes incomplete.

Still, I find traces. Twelve years ago, a fee. Fourteen years. Another.

Not enough to prove continuity, but enough to make me uneasy.

"This could be bigger," I say.

"How much bigger?"