The Morgan Brotherhood could not place agents directly at the Patriarch’s side, but hierarchies extended layer by layer downward. Those close to the Patriarch had their own subordinates and attendants, and as one followed these layers down, the Brotherhood only needed to gather intelligence from the middle and lower ranks. Combined with the fact that the Patriarch was not leaving St. York secretly nor keeping his movements hidden, Sadie could roughly infer the Patriarch’s itinerary.0

This was how intelligence gathering worked. Penetrating deep into the enemy’s core to steal critical information happened only in rare cases. Most of the time, it resembled assembling a puzzle—collecting scattered fragments, piecing them together to reconstruct a rough outline, and then making inferences and guesses.0

The Morgan Brotherhood excelled at this method. They did not sneak into the Patriarch’s secretary’s office to obtain his schedule. Instead, they gathered numerous seemingly irrelevant bits of information, such as the kitchen canceling a planned dinner, servants temporarily adjusting their shift rotations,...0