Location:Seven Peaks — Command Center
Date/Time:TC1855.05.01-03
Kael delivered the last three garrison reports on the first day of the fifth month.
He didn't come to the command center — he sent them through Thorne, sealed in Shadow Pavilion pouches, with a single-page summary on top in his own handwriting. The summary was clinical. Three garrisons. Three identical transitions. The institutional capture pattern confirmed across the full arc.
Raven read the summary standing at the progress board. Thorne stood at the wall map. The privacy formations hummed.
Ashwick — thirty-five kilometers. Transition in TC1854.10. One month after Ironmere. Perfect administrative output commencing month ten. Zero human variance.
Dunmere followed at fifty kilometers. TC1854.11. Same pattern. Same perfection. Same absence of anything human.
