Lyra found them at the forest's northern edge at hour thirty-six.
She came in from the eastern tree line with Liora two steps behind her, the glass ledger already open. She sat on a root without ceremony and opened the ledger to the projection she'd been building since the hour-thirty-two update.
"The board," she said.
Vane waited, his chest tightening.
"Forty-one pairs have gone static since deployment. What remains is accumulation strategies—circuit variants mostly—and three pairs still running direct elimination in the central terrain." She looked at the numbers. "The elimination pairs will exhaust themselves before hour forty-eight. The mana cost of sustained direct engagement over thirty-six hours is not recoverable in the remaining window."
She turned a page.
