Chapter 5

People started peeking through blinds. Doors opened. Someone across the street stopped mowing their lawn and just stood there, hands on hips, watching.Lorraine appeared at the edge of her driveway, clipboard clutched like a life raft. She looked unsettled. Still composed, but there was a tightness around her mouth I hadn't seen before. This was beyond her usual jurisdiction. These weren't HOA issues. These weren't warning letters she could copy and paste.Two men and a woman approached me. Professional. Polite. Calm in that way that suggests they're used to chaos and don't feel the need to perform urgency.They asked for my ID. Asked me to confirm my employment, my schedule, the last time the connection had been stable. I answered honestly. Carefully. The way you do when you know accuracy matters more than speed.One of them nodded, taking notes, and explained that the severed cable had briefly interrupted a routed communications path tied into a monitored system. Nothing catastrophic. Nothing dramatic. But enough to trigger a protocol review. In other words, my missing internet had tripped an alarm someone much higher up the ladder cared about.That's when they turned toward Lorraine."Ma'am," one of them said, "would you mind answering a few questions?"She smiled. Too quickly. Too practiced."Of course not," she said. "I'm the HOA president. I keep detailed records of everything that happens here."She launched into her story before they even finished asking: how she'd noticed the cable while doing her morning walk, how she'd immediately reported it, how important community standards were to her, how dangerous exposed infrastructure could be.They listened. They always do. Then they asked about the timeline.

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