POV: Cormac | Rookeries, war preparationThe silver weapons are laid out on the table in the specific order that preparation requires, which is the order of access, the things you reach for first at the front and the things you reach for when the first options are gone at the back, and I have been laying them out with the attention of someone who has done this before and who knows that the quality of preparation is the quality of what comes after it.I am thinking about what I have gambled and what I have lost.This is not new thinking. It is the thinking I have been doing since the Rookeries in the first year, since the specific moment when the accumulated cost of the choices I had been making became visible in a way I could not manage my way around, and it is the thinking that produced the past two years of different choices, but it has a quality tonight that it does not always have, which is the quality of arriving at an accounting, the final addition of a long column of numbers th
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