Arc: The Archive of Forgotten Angels Chapter 4: The Politics of Survival
The war room had become their unofficial headquarters over the past week. What had started as emergency strategic planning had evolved into a semi-permanent occupation, with various students cycling through for debriefs, tactical discussions, and the kind of low-level conspiracy theorizing that happened when institutional authority became untrustworthy.
Raya stood at the tactical table, holographic displays showing combat analysis from their second engagement with the Archivist. The data was both encouraging and sobering—they'd performed better, learned valuable intelligence, but the power gap remained astronomical. She'd spent the last three hours running simulations, and every model reached the same conclusion: they needed more resources.
