Willa finally spoke.
“Doctrine doesn’t know these mountains.”
Half the room turned.
Kincaid’s expression barely changed, but his jaw tightened. He was a thick-necked man in his forties, compact and powerful, the type who seemed born already suspicious. “With respect, ma’am, a sniper in the timber at zero-two hundred isn’t a wounded elk.”
“No,” Willa said. “He’s easier.”