[Week 2 — Day 8 — 7:00 AM]
The team had found its rhythm.
Eight days of the same schedules, the same marching positions, the same camp roles until the body did them before the mind ordered them.
Kira ahead. Always ahead.
Maya in the center-rear with the map. Always calculating.
Alex and Grim at the front of the central group. Grim practicing transitions as he walked because, according to him, movement helped fix the forms in muscle memory — a concept Alex wasn't sure applied to a being without muscles but wasn't going to argue about.
Raven on the left flank. Emily on the right with Luna present.
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[Morning]
Grim did the transition from eighty centimeters to one point five meters and back while walking, with the fluidity of something that three weeks ago took four seconds and now took less than two.
Alex watched him from the corner of his eye.
"Does it feel different since the evolution?"
Grim considered the question while transitioning.
