The specialists adjusted the plan cautiously and documented their reasons.

Meanwhile, the house investigation moved at a pace nobody liked.

Authorized inspectors assessed the ventilation system and collected samples under controlled conditions.

They found an undocumented auxiliary connection serving the boys’ rooms and evidence of material in a service component that had no place in a normal residential air-treatment installation.

Laboratory analysis would take additional time.

For Kenneth, waiting was agony.

He had once bought a software company in forty-eight hours because he disliked negotiating delays.