Location:Seven Peaks — Assembly Grounds, Multiple Departure Points
Date/Time:TC1853.11.30 (Day 14 — Pre-Dawn)
They assembled in the dark.
No formation lights. No lamps. Just the faint blue glow of the formation network pulsing through the ground beneath fifty-three pairs of boots and the distant cold of stars above a mountain that had learned to hold its breath.
Seven teams. Three assault. Four infiltration. Spread across the lower assembly terrace in clusters that had drilled together for two weeks and now stood together in silence because there was nothing left to say that their training hadn't already covered.
Raven walked the line.
