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I frowned.

I had seen the format before. Not the exact code. The shape.

Three grouped symbols followed by a narrow crown marker.

Royal.

I enlarged it.

Across the room, Veyr shifted.

The identifier wasn’t the same royal classification tag we had already found. That one marked the file. This one looked like a user credential.

Someone had actually accessed the record under a royal authorization.

Interesting.

I opened the metadata.

Denied.

Naturally.

I tried the archived cache.

Partial result.

Better.

A position field appeared.

ROYAL HOUSE ACCESS — SECONDARY LINEAGE AUTHORITY

I stared.

“Veyr.”

He was beside me before I finished saying his name.

I hadn’t heard him cross the room.

I looked up. “That is still unsettling.”

“What?”

“You moving like that.”

His attention went immediately to the screen.

I almost smiled.

Didn’t.

“What did you find?”

I pointed at the identifier.

His expression changed.