SILO POV
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The council's team reached the target property at midday, and Silo, insisting on personal involvement given his history with the family and his own careful read of exactly how volatile this situation might become, positioned himself at the lead of the compound's contribution to the operation.
"Standard formation," he told the assembled team — two council investigators, Daven, and Arden, whose intelligence background had proven essential in mapping the property's likely layout. "Quiet approach. We don't know how many adults are actually present, and we don't want a repeat of last time."
The property was a modest farmhouse, deliberately unremarkable, exactly the kind of place this compound had learned to recognize as chosen specifically to avoid attention.
Silo signaled the
