Marsh made his mistake on a Thursday. Priya had quietly rerouted the hidden camera feeds back through the estate’s own system. At eleven in the morning, a man Marcus didn’t recognise entered the east wing on a service code that should have been deactivated.
Marcus watched it in real time from his study. The man was recalibrating the system—tuning the frequency back toward the range that had been tormenting Titan for two years. The ceramic bowl had reduced the dog’s terror. The quieter system had begun to heal him.