I knew that.

“What I haven’t told everyone yet is that I was reviewing foundation vendor payments before the crash.”

My pulse quickened.

“I saved logs.”

PART 7 — THE BACKUP

Daniela had noticed irregular vendors.

Repeated invoice descriptions.

Small transactions just below internal approval thresholds.

She backed up authorization logs to an encrypted work archive because that was part of her audit workflow.

A few days before the crash, she copied a subset to an external encrypted drive to continue a permitted analysis remotely.