"Very well," Graves rumbles as she reaches for the dossier again, flipping it open to a new sheaf of documents covered in handwritten notations. "Since you've both agreed to preliminary involvement, we need to start coordinating the finer details immediately."
She pauses, leveling us each with an inscrutable look that nonetheless holds a newfound glimmer of...respect? Approval? It's difficult to discern her exact headspace.
"I don't have to tell you that from this point forward, operational security will be paramount. No detail too small, no precaution too insignificant when it comes to protecting the nature of this mission."
Charles and I can only nod mutely, the weight of the enormity we've just committed ourselves to already beginning to bear down with almost suffocating force. Yet G
