Sora's POV
The second leak happens on a Tuesday.
I learn about it through Bobby, in the gap between two surgeries, in that flat, lowered voice that means command doesn't want the words carried any further.
"They're sure this time. Internal route, used in a Rogue raid. Second one in two weeks." He sets the bulletin on the chart counter. "The investigation team's been formally stood up. Royal seal on it. Nobody's calling it a rumor anymore."
I don't look up from the suture log.
"How many dead."
"Nineteen. A forward patrol out of the eastern sector. They walked into a position no Rogue should have known existed."
Nineteen.
I write the number into the margin of my own field log, right beside the first one — the convoy, the one that brought Ethan in with a silver wound three centimeters
