By the time the fifth session rolled around, the squad hadn't just found a rhythm; they had forged a collective nervous system.
The tiny briefing room hummed with a quiet, lethal efficiency. Valerica anchored them, running the North and West sector analysis at the start of every meeting, relentlessly refining her threat classification matrix as fresh data trickled in from the Academic Archive's supplemental releases. Across the table, Cael was completely absorbed in her partial map's baseline data, painstakingly building her movement projection model by tracking invisible field disturbances. Beside her, Dav Irrel operated as the squad's navigator, crunching the brutal approach geometry and keeping their sector timelines razor-sharp.
Vane simply read.
