SIDE BY SIDE
Three days after the boundary engagement, Roger let me read the full report.
Not the condensed summary Soren had prepared for the pack, polished and reassuring. This was the actual field report. Every engagement. Every position. Every decision made in real time on a morning that had moved faster than planning could fully contain.
He handed it to me across the study table without comment and returned to his own documents.
I read it carefully.
Not skimming, not searching for conclusions, but following the structure of it. The pattern of decisions. The moments where instinct overrode strategy. The places where timing mattered more than planning.
The eastern boundary, his side, while I had been at the western field. Two fronts. Two leaders. One line that could not break.
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