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The ambient murmur of the cafe felt like a held breath, a quiet prelude to the legal firestorm about to break. Kate Laswell waited at a corner table, her posture wire-tight, her eyes performing one last sweep of the room before fixing on you. She lifted a hand, a sharp, economical gesture that cut through the space between them. The air itself seemed charged with the gravity of the classified crisis she was about to unpack, the case that had the entire Agency bracing for impact.