Chapter 15: Hill's Private Reckoning

The breach resolution took four hours.

Hill had known it would. She had run the timeline in her head during the debrief with Viktor in sub-level three — watching him annotate Voss's transmission with the particular focused stillness of a man who uses documentation as a form of weaponized calm — and she had known, even as she took his report and thanked him with the exact degree of institutional warmth that communicated nothing, that she had four hours before she would have to make a decision she could not reverse.

She used them efficiently.