Bright arrived at the temporary training grounds while the sky was still making up its mind about the day.
Not for the symbolic value of it — he was not, at this stage of his life, doing things primarily for their symbolic value. He arrived early because the grounds needed to be configured before the platoon arrived, and configuring them required his spatial awareness, and his spatial awareness required him to be there. The fact that the platoon would arrive to find their leader already present and already working was information that they would receive and process and that would tell them something about what the coming days would look like. That was a secondary effect. He took it.
He spent forty minutes rearranging the grounds.
