Location:Dragon estate — operations room
Date/Time:5 Frostforge, 9942 AZI
Realm:Lower Realm, Doha
It was fully dark outside, and nobody had left.
"Titles, then," Jayde said. "Names on things, in writing, before the end of this month."
"You are in a hurry," Heiteng said.
"Everything I've said in this room tonight is an argument. Arguments don't survive the person making them." She turned from the wall. "By the end of the month I want three things standing that do. A charter. A school. And a force."
"Two of those you have discussed at length."
"The third one is the one that pays for the other two and stops anybody taking them off us," Jayde said. "And it has a deadline of about a month, so we do it first."
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"Funding," Yinxin said. "Before anything else. Because a force with no money is a militia, and a militia is somebody else's problem within a year."
