Cole moved the compound in four hours.
Not dramatically — not the crisis alarm that brought everyone running. The specific, efficient reorganization of a man who had been running security protocols for decades and understood that visible alarm created panic and panic created errors. He moved the compound the way he did everything: methodically, without announcement, one element at a time until the configuration was different from what Aldric had reported to Riven three weeks ago.
The archive room access was changed.
The security rotation schedule was inverted — not randomized, inverted, which looked random from outside but followed an internal logic that would confuse any external pattern analysis.
The gate protocol had four new elements.
Roan absorbed all four without being told they
