# Chapter: Breaking Point
## USOV Safe House - 2:47 AM
The emergency relocation had been swift but chaotic. Agent Miranda Torres clutched her laptop bag as she hurried through the safe house's reinforced entrance, knowing that her cover had been blown along with dozens of others when Kiyomi revealed USOV's surveillance network to Dorian's growing army.
"How many assets have we lost?" she asked the safe house coordinator, a grizzled veteran named Marcus who'd been running covert operations since before USOV officially existed.
"Seventeen agents compromised, forty-three informants burned, and God knows how many safe houses we'll have to abandon," Marcus replied, his weathered face showing the strain of trying to coordinate evacuations across the entire state. "It's like she pulled our entire operational manual right out of Grey's head and decided to use it as a shopping list."
