The summons arrived without ceremony.
No announcement.No warning.No sense of urgency.
Just a quiet notification blinking on Dreyden's student interface as he exited the training hall, the glow faint enough that anyone passing by would miss it.
REQUEST FOR EVALUATIONLOCATION: Administrative Wing – Section EPRIORITY: Standard
Standard.
That single word unsettled him more than any red-tag alert ever could.
At the Triangle, anything truly dangerous was never labeled as such. Emergencies screamed. Threats came wrapped in urgency and protocol. But evaluations? Those were quiet. Precise. Designed not to startle prey before measuring it.
He didn't delay.
Delay implied hesitation.Hesitation implied fear.Fear invited assumptions.
And assumptions were how people here decided where to place you in the hierarchy.
