Strategic Defense had always been my greatest weapon. The safehouse systems hummed steadily, the forest outside dark and still after the last attempted breach. I moved through the inner rooms, checking every seal, every trap, every hidden protocol. Elias watched me with calm certainty, his small hand still clutching the toy scalpel. The protected ground I had built for him held firm, but strategic defense required constant vigilance. The defense was strategic because I had made it so — every layer, every trap, every hidden exit paid for in blood and exile. The clinic had fallen, but the defense of what truly mattered remained intact. Three years ago The strategic defense had begun in the back-alley clinic. After the delivery, as I held Elias for the first time, the Princess’s agents had breached the outer door. The midwife had fought them long enough for me to escape through the hidden exit, carrying my newborn son into the storm. Blood had sprayed across the walls. I had
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