Kane drew it out on paper.
Not a whiteboard, not a shared screen, actual paper with an actual pen, and watching him do it told me something about how he thought. He worked in straight lines with clear labels and no decorative detail, the kind of map a person makes when they have been making maps their whole life and have long since stopped needing them to be anything other than functional.
Four columns. Four targets.
WEBB. CALLUM. MERIDIAN OPERATIONS. THE COMPOUND LEAK.
“We move on all fours simultaneously,” Kane said. “Sequentially, it gives Eleanor time to respond between each move. If she finds out we’ve touched one, she burns the others. We take everything off the board at once or we don’t take it at all.”
“That requires splitting into four teams,” Ryker said.
“Yes.”
“We’re thin
