The northern territory transit took two days.
The Academy's sanctioned field operation channels moved differently from standard travel, the administrative cover Nina had constructed across the first week's preparation producing documentation that described the second week's movement as geological survey work in the highland plateau region, a research category that the Academy's second year operational framework included for exactly the purpose of providing legitimate cover for activities that needed to look like something other than what they were. The paperwork was thorough in the way Nina's paperwork was always thorough, which was to say it was thorough enough that anyone examining it would find exactly what they were supposed to find and nothing that suggested there was anything else to find.
Sariah had countersigned the transit authorization without comment.
