Perez nodded. “And that’s who I blame. Not you—you were just the computer’s puppet. Forerunner AI—they’re not as good at the long game as we think they are. It’s a gradient thing—Mogyla can explain it. They hate intermediate steps that lower their odds, even if they open up a better outcome in the process. Forerunner did its dark arithmetic, and decided it liked your direct approach better than Olivia’s patient approach. It’s the one who deserves the fucking court-martial over Williams.”