LYSSARA
The intelligence arrived on a Monday.
Not through Kaevra. Not through the coalition's formal reporting structure. Through Zykran's network, which operated at a different frequency than the coalition's structure and which reported things the coalition's structure was not designed to catch. the small, specific movements, the pattern shifts, the things that were not yet threats, and that experienced readers of such things understood were the specific texture of threats that had not yet decided to announce themselves.
I read it twice at the governance table before the morning session.
Then I set it down and looked at the tree line through the study window and understood that the quality of what I was reading was different from the previous week's intelligence in a way that was not
