POV: Nora Getting Elias and Marcus in the same room without a physical incident required more management than the logistics of the actual rescue. I handled it by telling each of them separately before they arrived at the dock, and framing it not as a choice but as a fact. Elias was already there when I gave Marcus the address, so Marcus arrived to find him, and the four seconds of silence between them when they made eye contact across the dock was something I let run its course without intervening. Then I said, "Aria has been on that island for twelve hours. We can stand here or we can go," and both of them turned toward the boat. Elias had brought two people, quiet and competent in the way of people who had done this kind of work before and had no investment in the specific situation, only the task. Marcus had brought no one, which was either trust or the recognition that his team was compromised and he had no clean options. Probably both. The boat was a rigid inflatable, fast an
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