That felt honest.
The academy delivered mine at dawn in a sealed blue folder thick enough to qualify as a weapon.
[Movement permitted within academy central grounds.]
[Lower training floors prohibited without written approval.]
[External travel prohibited.]
[Faction contract acceptance prohibited.]
[Private anomaly practice prohibited.]
[Provisional Silver Tactical Access maintained.]
[Normal ranking participation suspended.]
[Strategic counseling mandatory.]
[Medical check-ins twice daily.]
[Support Witness contact permitted under observation.]
[Team Seven operational status: restricted.]
At the bottom, someone had written:
Failure to comply may trigger immediate review.
I read the list twice.
Then set it on the breakfast table.
Ren leaned over it with a servant's horror of poorly organized instructions.
"They put medical check-ins after anomaly practice," he said.
"Yes."
"That is dangerous ordering."
"I agree."
"Should I recopy it by actual survival priority?"
