He wasn’t supposed to be there. His shift ended at 6 PM. But the server migration was scheduled for midnight, and as the last technician who understood the old email archive system, he had to check one final thing: a corrupted user mailbox from 2018.
“They told us to delete it. The ignition point was a flare from a private helicopter. Land grabbing, Javier. They’re covering it up. Save this. Send it through OWA Outlook Tragsa — it’s the only system they don’t monitor in real time.” owa outlook tragsa
But the preview text made his blood run cold: "Javier, if you’re reading this, don’t delete the 2014 logs. They prove the fire wasn’t an accident." He didn’t remember sending that. He couldn’t have — in 2018, he was still in Valencia, not Madrid, and he’d never worked on Sierra de Gredos data. He wasn’t supposed to be there