NEVA POV
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Silo's plan was simple.
Not simple as in obvious — simple as in clean, the specific clarity of someone who'd been looking at the problem from the perimeter and had identified the one move that worked precisely because it was unexpected.
"He's been patient for sixty years," Silo said. "His whole methodology is built on the assumption that the target doesn't know he's there until he's already inside the mechanism." He stood at the round table with the posture of a man who had arrived at a decision that required announcing rather than one that required discussion. "We remove that assumption. We go to him."
The table absorbed that.
"To the property," Ryke said.
"To the property," Silo confirmed. "Not aggressively. Not to confront — to establish contact. On our terms, in our
