Raphael Earhart
— Even the family elders were involved... — the words slipped out before I could stop myself.
I flipped slowly through Ten's ledgers — rows of neatly penned numbers veiling an entire network of off-the-books laboratories, beyond the one Renald had already destroyed. Among the suppliers and buyers, I noticed names that struck painfully familiar chords.
It wasn't exactly shocking. With a corruption scheme this extensive, it was hard to believe high-ranking officials from Hafelto hadn't dipped their hands in. But if the elders themselves were truly entangled in this... then there might be other cities out there like Gattir, where drug manufacturing had become disturbingly routine.
And yet, this was merely the tip of the iceberg.
— Well, well... — I muttered with a half-smirk tugging at my lips. — You even had dealings with Solaris and Sorerian.
