Din Kol returns to the Iudex tower’s investigation room with Strovi and Miljin and gives Uhad a full testimony of what the team found, recounting the route, gates, and the discovery that the crude key leads to the Hazas estate. Din speaks slowly, aware the memories are not anchored by scent.

As Din finishes, Uhad, Nusis, and Kalista react with sudden dread rather than simple concern, and Ana Dolabra’s earlier satisfaction fades into alertness. Uhad and Kalista fixate on the implication that the Engineers were poisoned at the Hazas home eight days before the breach, and Kalista spirals into panic about whether she might also have been infected.

Din realizes the others know something Din does not: there was a major event at the Hazas on that night. Ana forces clarity, confirming it was a party and that all three immuni attended. They insist they did not see any of the dead Engineers there, but Ana challenges their certainty, pointing out they may not even know what the Engineers looked like and that false names could have been used.

Ana reframes the stakes: the immuni now appear to be witnesses to the initial poisoning and to an act connected to the breach itself, making the situation too compromised and consequential for them to handle alone. Ana decides they must involve Commander-Prificto Vashta directly, and orders Miljin to take Strovi to deliver urgent news and seek Vashta’s guidance on the next steps.