SILO POV
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There were four wolves at the perimeter.
Silo assessed this in the first two seconds: four wolves, Pell's insignia visible on the lead one's jacket, no aggressive posturing, moving slowly. Not a threat formation. A delivery.
Pell was sending something.
He was also sending it at four in the morning, while Neva was in labor, which meant either the timing was deliberate or Pell had terrible operational instincts, and nothing Silo had learned about Pell in the last several months suggested terrible operational instincts.
The timing was deliberate.
He told his wolf: *Stay calm.*
His wolf said nothing, which was unusual. His wolf always had something to say. The specific something it said varied — alert, ready, watch the left flank, that person means something — but it said
