The five recovered anchors sat on the board beside three that had opened to Kest, each grant lit where a population voted it over. Nox held the map and moved no crew toward the three that had thrown their doors wide.
Rensa Ford sat on Kest's spine, and its anchor would have shortened his own campaign by a week. He read the through-route it offered and left the route untouched, since no vote there had handed it to him.
"The five that authorized are the five I fortify, so I am pushing crews onto their approaches and seating the controls in local hands tonight," Kendra said, redrawing the deployment across her board. "The three that opened stay untouched, and I spend no body taking an anchor a city gave away."
