The Department liked to describe Crusaders as disciplined professionals.
The truth was simpler.
Most of them loved attention.
The linkup was a symbol.
A black spinal column running down the back of an elite killer.
Civilians noticed it instantly.
Fear.
Awe.
Respect.
Operators moved through the streets like sharks through water.
Atriya understood the appeal.
He just wasn’t sure the symbol represented the kind of warrior he wanted to become.
Speed. Precision. Violence at a dead run.
Kent Wayne 
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