Chapter 11 Exposed

• The execution of the logistical disruption had succeeded, but the margin of error had been thin. The Crescent Pack’s supply manifests had been successfully altered, delaying the construction of the secondary fortification line in Sector Four by seventy-two hours. However, the administrative correction had initiated a secondary diagnostic review within both pack hierarchies. The surveillance assets of the Redwood Pack, directed by Alpha Vance, were now operating on an elevated state of alert, scanning for internal discrepancies rather than external threats.
• Elena sat in her vehicle, parked in the designated sector behind the commercial dining facility on the border of the neutral zone. The location had been selected for its low surveillance profile. The establishment was a neutral zone enterprise, meaning its perimeter was not integrated into either pack's primary security grid.
• At exactly twenty-three hundred hours, the passenger door disengaged. Tahlia entered the cabin, her movements indicating a partial restoration of her physical mobility. The joint compression wrap Elena had applied forty-eight hours prior had achieved its mechanical objective; the rotation of her shoulder was within seventy percent of nominal capacity.