Khao'khen's desk, on the morning the full account from the Arch arrived alongside Kael's three messages and Zul'jinn's note about the wall-mount engagement, held more good news than it had held in months.
He did not entirely trust that.
He read everything twice, the way Sakh'arran had taught him to read things that seemed, on first pass, to be exactly what you had been hoping for.
The wall-mount arc, complete, tested within two days, performing better against an unanticipated threat type than it had been designed for.
The sixth Keystone, the staging entity that had worried Aliyah since the second incursion, having attempted its largest push and failed, and lost ground for the first time.
The Threian western column, ordered to stand down, for reasons that traced back to the same boundary the coalition had spent months mapping.
Three fronts. Three pieces of good news, on the same week, each connected to the others by the same underlying cause.
