Briefing Room One filled in less than five minutes.
Nobody arrived late. Nobody asked why they had been called. The moment the first officers entered and saw the quarry feed projected on the front wall, the room understood. The opportunity they had studied for days was no longer theoretical. Far inside the Forest of No Return, twenty-three prisoners were at the stone quarry under the watch of six guards, and for the first time since Atlas had started planning a recovery mission, there were no wolves in sight.
