[SERA — POV]
They drove south in two vehicles — the Flame response unit in one, Kael and his two Noctis people in the other. The protocol required this: separate vehicles, separate communication chains, the formal structure of a joint operation that was still new enough to need its seams visible.
She drove. Mira was beside her, which had been Dorn's decision and also the right one.
Mira did not immediately say anything.
They were forty minutes out of Veyrath, past the point where the city's sprawl gave way to the highway's commitment, when Mira said: "The other vehicle."
"Yes."
"He's leading the Noctis unit."
"Yes."
Mira looked at the road. "I read the investigation files," she said. "All of them. The Callenhurst situation — it's Veyrath compressed. The same trigger events, the sam
