~Caden's POV~
The border patrol restructuring has been on his desk since Thursday.
It is now Saturday — the early hours of it, not yet two in the morning — and he has been working through the eastern rotation assignments for the past three hours with the methodical attention the task requires after Fenwick's removal. Eight years of patrol scheduling built around a mid-rank Gamma who was feeding its patterns to Ironmere. The entire eastern division needs to be rebuilt from first principles: new rotation intervals, new checkpoint positions, new communication protocols that route through channels Fenwick never had access to. It is granular, detailed work. He is good at it.
He prefers, currently, work that requires this kind of sustained precision. Work that asks something specific of him a
