The first official test comes on day nine of the review period.
Caleb sets it up as a contained exercise: hunter probe approaching from the northeast, a three-person scout team spotted by border sentinels. Standard intelligence-gathering approach, not a combat incursion. The task is to intercept, redirect, and — if possible — identify the scout team's origin cell without engaging the deep-source power at all.
Pure mark-work. Tactical application.
I'm given a four-person wolf team, a radio, and forty minutes.
What I'm not told, beforehand, is that Caleb is watching from the north observation post with a council monitor and a recording device.
I find out because Mara tells me, which she does while I'm already in the field, which is extremely useful and also extremely Mara.
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