He was at the entry station before the briefing started.
Dorath noticed, the way Dorath noticed everything relevant, and used the three minutes while the other team members were filing their permits to ask the question he had been expecting. Not the one about the eastern district event—he had read the Division's monitoring report and the closure note and had filed it in whatever category his professional model reserved for things that exceeded current classification. The question he asked was the practical one.
"Zone fifteen adjacent," Kai said, before Dorath could frame it. "What's the team ceiling?"
Dorath looked at him. A moment's assessment of what the question was actually asking and what the answer needed to contain.
"Currently C-adjacent," he said. "If the team's output profile changes, I reassess."
