Day 6 — Crossed Lines Elias brought the evidence to Mara. She paled. The fingerprint led to a contracted engineer who’d worked there for years, a quiet guy named Dima who fixed things with a smile and vanished into the infrastructure. He’d lost a son two winters ago, and rumors said he’d been struggling ever since—on calls, in corners. You could see how grief might morph into shortcuts: hide the alarms, keep the power running, avoid inquisitions. But those shortcuts were now endangering the whole plant.