The emergency absence procedures were clear enough that Julius Dravenholm's signature on the message made the bureaucratic process shorter than it would have been otherwise.
What was unusual was that the message had arrived directly to the new recruit rather than to Vehn, which was not how the procedures were supposed to work, and Vehn noted this without commenting on it.
'Maybe the kid was so good with the bureaucratic stuff that the castle found him more reliable?' Vehn thought with a new worry of losing his job soon.
"How many."
"Whoever can move now."
Vehn ran through the inventory he ran when calculating what the sector could release without losing the coverage it needed to function.
"Twelve," he said.
"Twelve," Ren agreed.
He went to gather them.
