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“Restricted.”

I created a separate column.

Prince access.

Affected warrior.

Human compatibility record.

Sample history.

One by one, the overlaps appeared.

Not perfect.

Enough.

“He was tracing bloodlines too.”

Veyr’s attention sharpened. “How do you know?”

I pointed at the family markers.

“These warriors aren’t all from the same unit. We already established that.”

“Yes.”

“But three share ancestral lineage markers.”

He leaned closer.

I moved the files beside each other. “And look at the associated human records.”

His eyes narrowed.

“Transfers.”

“Two transfers. One reassignment. One compatibility score changed after the original matched warrior became unavailable.”

Veyr took the terminal from me. “May I?”

I pushed the terminal toward him. “Yes.”

He rotated it and worked quickly.

I watched his hands instead of his face.

Bad idea.

I remembered those hands.

Worse idea.

I looked back at the screen.

Veyr brought up a military archive overlay.

“This prince accessed two restricted service histories within the same period.”