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“Six personnel directly connected to your reclassification and retrieval orders have been removed from active duty.”

“Removed how?”

“Four suspended.”

I waited.

“Two detained.”

Better.

“Do they know why?”

“Yes.”

“Talking?”

“Some.”

That sounded complicated.

“And the others?”

“We are still determining whether they knowingly participated or followed apparently valid directives.”

Veyr’s expression hardened. “That distinction matters.”

Anik looked at him. “Yes.”

Of course it did.

Veyr had been one of the people who followed.

Maybe that was why his voice changed.

I looked at the names. “Review Enforcement?”

“Temporarily restricted from acting on reproductive-status retrieval orders without secondary authorization.”

That surprised me. “All of them?”

“For now.”

“That’s a lot.”

“It should be.”

I looked up.

Anik’s expression had gone cold. “The authority used against you was real. The reason given for using it was not.”

The system hadn’t failed because someone forged every part. Someone had used legitimate machinery for an illegitimate purpose. Which was worse in some ways.

I nodded toward the slate. “And the Veil?”

Veyr went still beside me.

Anik shifted the display again.