The Scent of White OrchidsThe convoy did not reduce its velocity as it cleared the shattered concrete of the canyon narrows. The heavy-duty tires threw up a steady, aggressive spray of muddy shale, gravel, and melted mountain frost against the reinforced wheel wells. Inside the primary command transport, the captured data modules sat on the center console, their indicator lights flickering an unstable amber under the dim tactical cabin illumination. Outside, the sheer granite walls of the high mountain pass finally began to recede, giving way to the wide, sloping timberlines that marked the upper boundary of the lower valley basin.But the transition into home territory was not destined to be clean.Two miles from the primary valley boundary checkpoint, the air outside the reinforced windshield rapidly lost its crisp, alpine sharpness. A thick, yellowish-grey haze was rolling out from the deep drainage cuts along the old logging roads, heavy, dense, and distinctly unnatural. It did n
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