When she put it that way, Ves could not easily back away from this challenge.
He already had a history of defying conventional wisdom and realizing the impossible.
That said, he did not direct much attention to this line of thinking. He still needed to complete other mech design projects before he could think about developing an elven Woodsap mech that could resist its own counters.
The clandestine meeting soon came to an end. Calabast possessed a wellspring's worth of intelligence, but much of it was either unverified or trivial.
Ves did not need to know everything, especially now that Casella assumed leadership over the Larkinson Clan. The older he became, the more he came to appreciate the ability to delegate work to the people led and befriended over the span of many years. He trusted the ace commander to act appropriately on the intelligence collected by the Black Cats.
Before she left, Calabast left another warning behind.
