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But watching it activate in real time, watching decades old loyalty snap back into place with a single phone call, is something else entirely.
Marcus arrives midmorning, having cut his and Selene’s trip short the moment the call came through, and he moves through the west wing turned operation center issuing orders before he’s even fully through the door, no explanation offered to anyone, none apparently needed. Men fall into position around him immediately.
Eventually, Elias finds him alone near a bank of monitors sometime after noon.
“How many people does he still have?” Elias asks, mostly because he needs to understand the scale of what’s currently assembling around him.