[KAEL — POV]
He waited.
He was good at waiting—he'd been a general long enough that waiting was a significant portion of the job, and he'd developed the ability to use waiting as productive time: running calculations, reordering priorities, examining assumptions from new angles.
He examined the current situation.
The Architects had Corvath as an operational arm—his working theory. Corvath had the resources to surveil the Ash Market, hit the river house, and conduct professional-level operations. They had silver compound ammunition. They had, apparently, the ability to identify him in Veyrath despite two weeks of careful concealment.
Which meant the Architects had penetration into the Ash Market's information networks at a level that should have been impossible. The Ash Market was supp
