Rex watched Mireya hold the right flank for another twenty seconds and thought, Useful to know.
At the eleven-minute mark, the pack broke into smaller groups, and when Nerith called out from the northern edge, three more groups were coming in from the limestone flats. Rex had been using the engagement to demonstrate for Elizabeth's benefit a restrained variety of workings.
It was a layered ice construction, dividing the leading pack group at the intersection of two approach vectors. There's also a wind-pressure working, reversing a creature's charge and redirecting it into its own cluster, and a fire-suppression barrier, technically a compound working that combined elements in a sequence that was not part of any standard academy curriculum.
