Chapter 82 Whispers Of Change

• The Captain rubbed his temples as he leaned back in his chair, the hum of the heater muffled against the distant howl of the cold outside. The meeting he’d just left had been long, full of statistics, reports, and requests from upper command — but this time, there had been something different in the air.
• Progress.
• For the first time in years, the charts on the wall had tilted upward — fewer losses, more successful reclamations, stronger survival data. And the common factor in all of it was one thing: the Special Squad system.