You look at the board and realise it still leans too hard on inference. One clue is memory, the intern’s phrase, vivid and human, easy for a sceptic to dismiss as gossip. Another is Marc’s complaint, sharp enough to feel true and still soft enough to be denied as attitude. Another is language dressed as policy: committee tone, careful verbs, the polite refusal to panic on schedule. Alone, each piece can be argued away by someone good at their job. Together, they suggest a shape, but suggestion is not survivable when Mango is asking for receipts, or when Isabella decides to treat coincidence like a procedure. You need a second road strong enough to stand even if the first collapses. Not a bigger theory: a different category of evidence. A date pattern. A ticket. A footnote that cannot be waved off as tone. Something that makes the delay visible from an angle no one can claim is your imagination. You step back from the board, rub your eyes, and accept the uncomfortable truth: you are not finished. You are only finally asking the right question. > [!question] What do you do? [[Need Independent Proof|Seek independent proof]], A second road to confirm the pattern.