Keelic spent the last day of the endweek studying Galactic War history in the house library. He examined massive, dynamic maps, tracing the extent of the war as it spread. When that yielded nothing near Ermol, he examined the history of the rifle, especially its use in covert operations. Under the pretext of a school project, he got Anny to help him request declassified war documents that weren’t stored in the local planetbase, but it would be months before they arrived. Exhausted, he went to bed early and dreamed of infantry battles.