LYSSARA
Zykran's morning report arrived two days after the assessment began. I was at the governance table when he brought it. Not the standard intelligence summary. A separate document, single page, delivered with the specific quality of attention Zykran brought to things he had assessed as requiring direct delivery rather than the ordinary channel.
“There is something in the report you need to read before the morning session, “ he said.
I read it. The three data points on Dravenor's movement pattern were present and updated. The atmospheric signature had strengthened overnight in the specific way that Kaevra's scouts described as consistent with a Shadow Alpha who had made a directional decision and was no longer moving at the exploratory frequency but at the committed one.
That was
