Song Dohyun finds out about Carmine on a Tuesday.
He's in his office when Jangmi comes in with the report — quietly, the way she does everything, setting it on the desk and stepping back before he's even looked at it. He reads it once, sets it down, before reading it again.
Carmine. Flagged for Division surveillance. The array dismantled. All eleven stones recovered and currently sitting in Ki Yeonbom's lab being analyzed.
Eleven stones and six weeks of careful, patient work.
He sets the report down.
"Thank you, Jangmi," he says.
She bows and leaves.
Song Dohyun sits in his chair and looks at the aquarium and thinks.
The array had been a contingency. Not his primary plan — he had no primary plan yet, not in the way people assumed when they looked at him and saw someone who always had a primary plan. What he had was information and patience and the understanding that Eight being alive changed every calculation he'd been running for four years.
