The waiting was going to kill her before the war did.
That was the conclusion she had arrived at by midmorning of the first day after her father left through the window, and she had not revised it since because the evidence continued to support it. She had tried the maps — had stood in the war room for an hour looking at the colored markings and the border positions and the calculations Raven had updated with the new three day timeline, and the maps had told her everything she already knew and nothing she did not, which made them unhelpful in the specific way that useful things became unhelpful when you had already extracted all their usefulness.
She had tried the training courtyard.
