She lived in the apartment above the office. She grabbed a letter opener—her father’s old pistol was too heavy with memory—and went down. Through the frosted glass, she saw a silhouette. Too small. Trembling.

Elisenda didn’t celebrate. She just added two more names to the false wall—now a digital archive, encrypted, scattered across seventeen servers in five countries.

The man’s smile didn’t fade, but his eyes went cold. “You’re alone, Elisenda. A single lawyer.”

“Are you the advocate for lost people?” the girl whispered.

She had spent the night not just hiding Lucia, but preparing a legal avalanche. The hacker had found the real estate holdings of the men in the vans. The archivist had unearthed a forgotten 1977 amnesty law that didn’t apply to kidnapping. The nun had recorded everything on her phone.

“Sign,” he said. “Or we’ll find the girl. And we’ll find everyone who helped her.”