House Orell had been careful about what went onto their secured systems, but apparently not nearly as careful with their mouths when speaking around mundane, low-tier maintenance technology.
"Audio fragments reconstructed from residual buffer cache," D-29 stated evenly. "Timestamp variance suggests this exchange occurred approximately twelve standard cycles ago. Speaker identification confidence: ninety-three percent."
The projection shifted, and the room filled with distorted but intelligible voices.
[Recovered Audio Log 12-A | Partial Reconstruction]
Tavian's voice came first, tight and strained.
"Grandfather, you have to help me! Father isn't willing to listen to what I'm saying!"
"You can't just let him disappear like that. Father decided he wouldn't be returning with us because he's now an unfortunate liability. I don't think that's a fair assumption."
A sharp tap echoed, likely the sound of a cane striking the floor before being set aside.
