He implemented the lockdown the morning after the shipment. He did it the way he implemented everything of this kind: efficiently, completely, without asking for opinions about whether it was the correct response.
Guards doubled on the outer perimeter. The interior security rotation changed to a pattern that left no unmonitored intervals. Seraphina's movements were restricted to the villa and the immediate garden. Her phone access was filtered through a secondary system that blocked outgoing communication to unverified numbers. He implemented this last measure and was aware of doing it and did not ask himself whether it was proportionate because proportionality was not the relevant calculation when the calculation was safety.
She found out within three hours. He had not expected her to take longer.
