Location:Seven Peaks and Continental — Multiple Locations
Date/Time:TC1855.07 – TC1855.10
Drake responded in three days.
His message was two lines: Detection specifications received. Guild deployment begins end of week. You owe me a very expensive dinner. Attached was a deployment schedule — forty-seven settlements in the first month, prioritized by proximity to the growth zone's expanding perimeter. Drake had assigned his best intelligence operatives as corridor observers. The same people who tracked mercenary contracts and monitored noble house machinations would now spend their days watching how people walked through a chill.
