She looked north.
"Which means," she said, "that what he's building now is also not purely strategic. Some of its architecture is computation. Some of it is — something else. And something else has different vulnerabilities than pure computation does."
Satou filed this.
It felt important. He couldn't yet see exactly how, but the kind of important that stayed in the back of a mind until it became relevant.
They camped inside the Ashvale remnant on the seventh night.
The ambient field made sleep more difficult — not impossible, just requiring more deliberate effort to reach, the kind of difficulty that came from an environment making low-level demands on the unconscious mind that prevented the full relaxation of consciousness.
