Date: TC1853.11.03 – TC1853.11.09
Location: Seven Peaks Territory — Multiple Locations
The reports sat on Raven's desk for two days before she found time to read them properly.
Not because she didn't care. Because ten thousand people needed food, shelter, sanitation, dispute resolution, medical care, construction oversight, formation maintenance, and approximately four hundred other daily necessities that didn't pause because something unsettling was happening three hundred kilometers east. Running a nation, it turned out, was a relentless exercise in triage — every problem urgent, every solution creating two new problems, every hour of the day spoken for before it arrived.
She read the reports on the morning of the fourth, before dawn, with cold tea and the particular stillness that came from being the only person awake in a building designed for dozens.
