MITCH POV
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Mitch had seventeen prepared response architectures for the opening moves of the five financial families.
He'd built them across the twelve-day window — one for each family's most probable first action, cross-referenced against historical territorial precedent, resource availability, and what Daven's intelligence had revealed about each family's preferred methodology.
He had not built a response architecture for what Family Casson had actually done.
This was, in Mitch Avaro's considered professional opinion, deeply irritating.
Family Casson — fourth on his list in order of concern, lower-resource than Aldis but faster-moving, the family he'd classified as *follow-the-leader* when Daven had laid out the intelligence — had not moved through territorial filings. Had not ap
