The complication arrived eighteen hours before scheduled deployment.
Amaron was reviewing tactical maps with his assigned team—Sareth as team lead, two A-rank combat specialists named Vren and Kaito, and himself as structural analyst and S-rank combat support—when the emergency summons came through from Coordinator Draveth. All team leads and S-rank personnel were to report to the coordination center immediately. No explanation. Just the urgency code that meant something significant had changed.
They assembled in the secure briefing room within twenty minutes. Draveth was already there with Mordain, Kael, and Torvald. All of them had the expression of people who'd received information they didn't like and were now determining how to proceed.
