His war is measured in completed cycles—how quickly a signal becomes a decision, how often that decision arrives before the other side can respond.
Outside, the road remains empty.
What once moved along it—trucks, people, ordinary life—has been replaced by signals, patterns, fleeting signatures of heat. The war has not stalled. It has compressed, accelerated, turned space into time.
And somewhere between a message sent at dawn and a system alert that lasts less than a second, it keeps moving, faster than the story most people are still telling about it.
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