CAIRN POINT OF VIEW

My first shift began before the sun had fully settled into the sky.

There was no clear line marking the moment it started. No command shouted, no formal gathering to separate training from duty. It happened quietly, almost unnoticed, like stepping from one shadow into another. One moment I stood among recruits, still carrying the rhythm of drills in my body, and the next I was being pulled away, guided deeper into the structure of Moonfang.

Toward the part of it that ...