Aria's POV Planning a war against your own mother while hiding in an abandoned ranger station wasn't exactly covered in any leadership training I'd ever received. But then again, most leadership training probably didn't account for discovering that your primary parental figure was orchestrating your systematic elimination. "First priority," I said, spreading out Hayes's hand-drawn map of the Academy grounds, "is disrupting their timeline. They're planning to eliminate all targets within seventy-two hours. We need to make that impossible." "How do we disrupt a timeline when we don't know all the moving pieces?" Riven asked. "We create chaos that forces them to react instead of act. Make them respond to our moves instead of following their careful plan." "That's incredibly dangerous," H

