I briefed the extraction team at 23:00.
No preamble. No explanation for why I was standing at the head of the war room table instead of Damon — I didn't treat it as something requiring explanation, and so it wasn't. I walked them through the facility's layout as intelligence had reconstructed it: mid-rise commercial building in the warehouse district, three usable floors, holding area in the basement level, service entrance from the loading dock on the building's south face. Two security rotations, estimated four to six hunters per rotation based on the size of the facility and the number of wolves it was reportedly holding.
"Eleven captives," I said. "The intelligence window is thirty-six hours before the organization rotates them to a secondary location. The window opened eighteen hour
