Thorne had the plan ready in three hours.She had not known he was building it until he came to find them in the strategy room with a map spread under his arm and the specific focused quality he brought to problems he had been thinking about for longer than he had been thinking about this one. She understood, looking at him, that he had been running contingencies for some version of this since before the village was raided. He had known it was coming. He had prepared."Small team," he said, spreading the map. "Speed is the advantage. He's not in established territory—he's camping, which means the defenses are improvised. That's his weakness." He pointed to the eastern edge of the indicated area. "There's a natural approach from the north that the camp's eastern guard placement doesn't cover well. Two scouts, three warriors. In, extract, out before he can organize a response.""How long from insertion to extraction?" Cain said."Forty minutes, if everything goes
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