The Calibration of Iron and Friction Within the Locked Vault of the High Readiness Mandate
CHAPTER 1: THE ACCUSATION OF THE FLUSHED INSTRUCTOR The smell of burnt diesel and pressurized hydraulic fluid always settled at the back of the throat like rusted iron filings. Staff Sergeant Clara Vance kept her knuckles balanced on the greasy edge of the steel worktable, her boots dug into the pitted concrete floor of Repair…