Amber POVJohn Stait left for the docks within minutes.He took a rapid response team, two intelligence officers, and enough authority to move entire sectors of the city if necessary.Before leaving, he did only one thing that mattered.He handed command of the operation to Jason.No one objected.No one hesitated.The room simply accepted it.Jason did not acknowledge the weight of it.He only stepped closer to the central station and kept working.Digging deeper.Following encrypted trails.Peeling back shell accounts, false identities, and dead-end corporations to find who had funded all of this.Who wanted war badly enough to buy children.I turned back to our side of the board.The container.The docks.The transfer route.The timeline.But another question pressed harder than logistics.How had they been taken in the first place?These were not ordinary teenagers.They were selected.Trained.Exceptional.Some likely taught surveillance awareness, resistance, escape protocols, e
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