The plan took four hours to build and would take four days to execute.

Marina laid it out on the map table with Silvain and Ragnar on either side of her and Astrid across from her and nobody pretending the personal history in the room wasn't there. They had gotten past pretending. It took too much energy they didn't have.

Four territories. Four artifacts. Four separate raids with different terrain, different guard configurations, different levels of risk.

"Silvermoon first," Marina said. "It's the closest and the least fortified. Obsidian took it fast and hasn't had time to build deep defenses. We get the Moonstone Fang, we learn the pattern of...