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experience would make them better.
    Her wrist alert went off. “Alpha Wolf, I’m sending a team with the Hephaestus unit heading to Old Chicago, if that’s alright with you,” Logan said. “They’re going to help unload once the get there.”
    “That’s fine,” Selene told him. “We’re not expecting much today, and Redd Foxx is on guard duty.”
    “Roger that.”
    She walked past another pair of boats, these ones filled with more Black Wolf troops wearing scuba gear. Their leader waved at her.
    “Heading out,” Ethan told her.
    “Practice?” she asked.
    “Yeah, we’re going to get some underwater infiltration practice in,” he replied. “Don’t want to get left behind by the rest of you.”
    Selene laughed. “Hey, don’t sweat it. We were the only ones crazy enough to try something new like that.”
    “Behind enemy lines, no less. But like I said, we want to be able to do that too.”
    “Careful where you do it,” Selene warned. “There’s razormouths in the water at several points, and trust me when I say you do not want to be on the business end of one of those things. Check the water before you get in.”
    “Can’t we kill them?”
    Selene shrugged. “You might be able to chuck a grenade or two into the water, but don’t count on that killing them all. I’d rather take my chances finding another spot.”
    Ethan gave her a thumbs up. “Thanks for the advice.”
    Selene watched the river craft start up and speed away from the dock with a satisfied smile on her face. She felt it in the air around her. After months of close-calls and hanging by a thread, there was suddenly a sense of optimism in the air. With it came a new energy, and the effect was contagious.
    Maybe part of it was due to the new update. The lifting of class restrictions made anything possible, and players wanted to take advantage of it. Everyone seemed enthusiastic, wanting to learn something new, do something different to expand their horizons. With a world of possibilities ahead of them, who wouldn’t be caught up in the wave?
    She came across Gavin next, studying his wrist menu map. “Anything interesting?” Selene asked.
    Gavin looked up and shook his head. “Eh, not really. I’m mostly trying to figure out what are best scouting routes will be.”
    Selene nodded. “We’re going to have to make some probes at the Ragnarok line. Or maybe we can just go around it.”
    “I have a feeling it’s not going to be that easy,” he replied. “We’re going to have to be careful. Of course, that probably sounds real rich, coming from me.”
    “Just a bit,” Selene agreed. Gavin had acquired a bit of a reputation as a daredevil, and that had gotten him killed more than once. Selene still remembered him charging a mech suit, trying to stick it with an anti-tank grenade. The machine had chopped him in half for his trouble, but no one could doubt his courage. Either that, or he was insanely reckless.
    “But really, Ragnarok knows a lot of tricks we have up our sleeve,” Gavin said. “Don’t you think they’d be prepared for incursions from the lake?”
    “Sure, but they can’t cover everywhere at once,” Selene said, pointing to the map. “They have to contain us here, at Racine. Knight Battalion is fighting them along their supply corridor to Old Chicago, and Dragon is pushing at them further to the west. And then we have Rogue as our strategic reserve.”
    “Plus they have Magic Battalion in the far north, as well as the Milwaukee garrison to contend with,” Gavin finished. “Yeah, that’s a lot of ground to cover, but you’d still think they’d spend a lot of time on the lakefront.”
    “Maybe they underestimate just what we can do.”
    “After that raid on their district in Milwaukee? I think that’s a pretty good reminder of what we can do,” Gavin replied.
    “OK, so they probably know what’s up,” Selene admitted. “That still doesn’t mean they can stop us. They have one hundred miles of