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A month passed without incident.
Kian held his sector. No enemy contact, no significant disruptions. His position sat well behind the active front line, which had pushed several hundred kilometres further north. The fighting out there was serious and getting worse — he could track it through the battalion's vox net — but back here the war was something you listened to rather than participated in.
What the vox traffic told him was grim. The forward PDF regiments had stopped making distinctions. Farmers working fields, families sheltering in settlements — it made no difference. The calculus had simplified to the point of erasure. After the killing came the sweeping — immature crops stripped from the ground, rebel supply caches emptied, everything loaded and sent south.
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