Chapter 6 - The Witness
The door opened. A man in a captain’s uniform stood there — pale, nervous, holding a tablet. “General Whitaker. I’m Lieutenant Marlow. I was the night shift comms officer.”
Whitaker nodded. “Come in, Captain.”
Marlow looked at Hayes. “Sir… I kept the logs. Not just the transmission — the metadata. Who authorized the recall. The exact timestamp.”
“And?” Whitaker said.
“The order came from Colonel Hayes’s secure terminal. At zero-three-oh-one. No emergency code. No override from command. Just… direct.”
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Hayes’s face hardened. “You’re tampering with official records—”
“I backed it up to three separate servers before I came here.” Marlow’s voice shook but he didn’t back down. “Because I knew if I didn’t, they’d disappear. Just like Captain Carter’s name did.”
