"I expected Death's Chosen would clear the first dungeon in Valdenmoor," she said. "I expected you'd dissolve the core before I could extract it." She paused. "I prepared for what came after." She looked at him. "So did you, once." She paused. "That's the blank multiplier." She paused. "We think ahead."
He took the documentation packet.
She walked away.
He watched her go.
Then looked at the documentation packet.
Then looked at the World Threat Response.
Two new dungeon signatures. Different territories. The rate already confirmed.
He went to find Dael.
Dael read Mira's documentation in two hours.
He sat across the table and watched the pattern recognition run — the specific focused expression of someone processing significant data against a deep reference framework.
When Dael finished they set the documentation down.
Looked at him.
"Her model is sophisticated," Dael said.
"Is it correct," he said.
