Chapter 61: What Hector Sees

Hector came to the training ground instead of the supply office.

That meant the conversation was not administrative.

Lysander was finishing the morning drill — the weight-shift sequence, the one that had been feeling less like thought and more like movement over the past weeks. He heard the gate and lowered the sword and turned. Hector came in and looked at him the way he sometimes looked at people he was assessing rather than greeting — the specific inventory of a man who tracked physical states the way other men tracked supply levels.

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