“He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.”
-Sun Tzu, The Art of War-
Chapter 131: Patience will reveal the final move
The city moved in its usual rhythm, unaware of the turmoil beneath the sun. Traffic lights blinked in predictable sequence, the hum of engines threaded through narrow streets, and pedestrians followed habitual patterns without thought. To any observer, nothing was wrong. Nothing needed noticing. Nothing needed repair.
Dominique stood behind the operations room’s panoramic window, tablet untouched at her side. Screens and grids filled the room behind her, but her attention wasn’t on the data. It was on the pauses, the subtle deviations in timing that no one else would see—the hesitation of a forklift operator at a checkpoint, the wa
