The plan came together in twenty minutes.
Not because twenty minutes was enough time — it wasn't, there were too many variables and too many unknowns and Fenris five miles east with knowledge of the valley changed the shape of everything we'd built in the war room this morning. But twenty minutes was what we had before the ridge team aborted and reported up, and Fenris received confirmation that the mapping had failed and moved from deciding to acting.
Twenty minutes.
We used them.
Seren organized the departure with the efficiency of someone who had been running logistics for significant operations for long enough that urgency didn't disrupt the process, just accelerated it. Four horses. Provisions for two days. Edran and two additional warriors — Daven and Sel, who had met us at the e
