Morris came back in twenty-two minutes, not thirty.
She came in with the folder she had taken and two additional sheets of documentation and the expression of someone who had confirmed what they expected to confirm and was now in the phase of determining what to do with the confirmation.
She put the documentation on Volmer's desk beside Sera's folder.
"The credential circumvention used a ghost access point," she said. "A secondary authentication pathway built into the system that predates my security review by at least eighteen months." She looked at Volmer. "Whoever installed it had administrative access at the system architecture level. Not operational access. Infrastructure access."
"Which narrows the field considerably," Sera said.
"To four people who have held that level of access in the past two years." Morris looked at her documentation. "One of them is no longer at the academy. One is currently cooperating with the inquiry. One is — " she paused, "me."
