the bait

The first week of the second month of the cadets' stay at Argos had begun. They spent the entire first month with the profiles and the relationship tree of Furlien, his close circle and that of the people he had been seen with in recent months, according to the information from the infiltrators that the intelligence service had on the ground.

But that first week they left this work behind, and began with the formal analysis of objectives. In most cases, except in global decisions in which the course of the war was decided and intelligence reports were assessed, it was the commanding officers themselves who had to do this work on the fly.

The boys were surprised by the speed at which Penelope had dispatched this part of the matter in a single week. They were also surprised that despite her analysis, the intelligence officer seemed to be in no hurry to begin any mission.