"Southern sector reporting they're probing our wall foundations," came a report. "Sappers are using detection equipment on the base structures."
"Let them look," Lyra decided after a moment's calculation. "The walls are solid. They'll learn that eventually anyway. Save your arrows for when they actually try something."
"They're learning our defensive patterns," Seraphina observed, her demon lord perception tracking the broader tactical picture. "Elric's building a comprehensive intelligence model of our capabilities."
"Can't be helped," Lyra replied. "We show them enough to make them cautious, but we hold back our best surprises. He doesn't know about your corruption specialists yet. He doesn't know about Vex'ahlia's elite forces. He hasn't seen our trap sequences in the approaches between First and Second Lines."
"When do we reveal those?"
"When he commits to a real assault. Let him think he understands our capabilities based on what he's seen so far. Then show him he's wrong."
