Razor traced a city block on the map, mapping out routes for volunteer convoys that would look like contractor shipments. Switch used Krell’s own annotated times to schedule diversions—potholes, stalled generators, phantom rodents chewing optic fibers. Knuckles went to the feed sheds and rewired cameras to look the other way when the convoys passed. Phantom found the middlemen in Krell’s chain and gave them better offers than fear: long-term contracts, real pay, a cut that meant pride, not starvation.
