“Arthur Vance did not order Julian to evict you merely to secure a residential lot, Clara,” Cooper continued:
“The frozen assets, the eight years of poverty, and having Julian throw five hundred dollars at your feet today were operational necessities for their timeline.
Arthur needed your documented domestic penury, your physical departure from Valve Station Ten, and your grandfather’s sovereign trust broken before sunrise this morning—the statutory seventy-year deadline when your grandfather’s sovereign trust reverted into Willa’s unencumbered fee-simple possession under civilian chancery law.
The property on Parcel Nine sat directly atop Valve Station Ten—the primary Southwestern overland surface access hatch and emergency cryogenic staging terminal for Conduit Ten connecting the regional defense command straight into the capital core.”
“Arthur Vance knew that under the original nineteen-forty-four charter, Conduit Ten was protected by an automated, self-sealing hydrodynamic scuttle protocol.”
