The Sleeping Giant of Kansas

Previously

…This was about suppression, about a calculated, ruthless effort to silence him, to bury the truth along with the evidence. And the stakes, he now understood with a chilling certainty that settled deep in his gut, were far higher, far more terrifying, than he had ever imagined. The Sleeping Giant was waking, and someone – or something – was desperate to keep the world from knowing. The darkness outside the office was no longer just the absence of light; it felt like a tangible, encroaching threat, the shadow of a power that operated in the unseen, in the silence, in the deep, dark places where secrets festered. The investigation had just become a fight for survival.