Chapter 152

Chapter 152 SARAH Twelve hours after the Geneva Cooperation Accords were signed, I stood in the transformed Guardian Command Center, watching tactical displays that now showed enhanced-conventional joint operations across forty-seven active crisis zones instead of the enhanced individual tracking systems that had defined my previous eighteen months of service. The severed quantum bond with James created emotional complexity that military training hadn't prepared me for, but through conventional command protocols integrated with enhanced coordination networks, I found operational stability that transcended personal relationships while maintaining tactical effectiveness. "Joint operation efficiency assessment," I announced to the integrated command team, my conventional military expertise now coordinating with enhanced capabilities to provide crisis response that exceeded either system operating independently. Lieutenant Morrison looked up from communications arrays that connected conven