Victor had done this, and Dimitri was irritated enough by the fact to respect it.
There was no pettiness in the assessment. Victor had not hidden Felicity out of fear, nor had he pulled her forward simply to taunt them. He had looked at the shape of the problem, measured the pressure gathering around her from both teams, and removed the only piece none of them could stop orienting toward. It was efficient. It was intelligent. It was also making Dimitri's people increasingly difficult to manage, which meant it had landed exactly where it was meant to.
