**WN uploaded the chapters in the wrong order; due to this, I have to write this note because of the number of words reduction**
**WN uploaded the chapters in the wrong order; due to this, I have to write this note because of the number of words reduction**
Chapter 219 – Before Northwest
They spent two days in Vael's Crossing after Stage 5's activation.
Not because two days were needed. Because the group had been running at operational pace for six weeks and the body—all bodies, not just his—benefited from two days of something other than crisis management. The pool was recovering. Mira was reading the two conducted patterns through the vault pair and making notes that the director would want. Neral had been sleeping more than usual in the days since telling everything he knew, which was what happened when a person set down something they'd been carrying for a long time.
Varn came to the quarters on the morning of the second day with questions.
