Chapter 154 Leith

• Leith's POV
• "If Cain thinks his ghosts will save him, then it’s time to bury the dead."
• The hum of the command tent was a low, vibrating thing—like a dying heartbeat kept alive by machines and mission briefings. The generator coughed somewhere outside, a mechanical wheeze under a canvas heavy with heat, sweat, and impending violence. Light filtered through the worn seams above, dust motes floating in golden shafts like the last embers of something sacred, long since extinguished.