"We do all of it."
The three Board members stared at her.
"We form a League strike team," Ryline continued. "A Special Operations unit. Jaev, you will select people who can operate under extreme mana stress. Voril, you will build them tools that can react faster than that reef can twitch. They will be ready as soon as we have a stable coordinate set."
Voril inclined his head, slow but accepting. Jaev grunted.
"At the same time," Ryline went on, looking at Halsen now, "we prepare… packages. Condensed versions of our data. Clean lines. No mention of certain anomalies. You may begin 'conversations' with foreign buyers. Quietly. If they want to bleed in our place, we let them."
Halsen smiled, truly smiled this time.
"And the prince-consort?" he asked.
Ryline's eyes went back to the graphs.
