Location:Virescent Expanse — Confederate Territory
Date/Time:TC1854.05.15-17
Kairos was fifty meters away when she stopped talking.
He was consulting with Sera Vahn about deployment patterns — the healed soldiers' tactical integration with the Storm-Claw's aerial reconnaissance, a conversation that required his full analytical attention and was receiving approximately eighty percent of it because the remaining twenty percent was, as it had been for months, tracking a voice on the other side of the clearing.
Raven's voice. Mid-sentence. Explaining something to Tarek about detection nodes and cloud-layer coverage. The voice that had become, without his permission or awareness, the baseline frequency against which he measured the status of every room he entered. Present: acceptable. Absent: noted. Speaking: the world was operating correctly. Silent —
Silent.
