The Horrifying Reality of Fighting Alongside the Brotherhood of Steel

Emmett Doyle, an unregistered wire-runner attached to Recon Squad Gladius at Cambridge, drew Proctor Teagan's crop requisition map to prove he was worth a registration number, not fully letting himself know he was mapping his own brother's farm along with it. Told in reverse, opening on the morning he's cut from the muster list and working backward one loss at a time, until it lands on the moment his niece stops running to the fence when she sees him coming. Danse, Rhys, Haylen, and Teagan act to their canonical anchors throughout; the emotional spine is a man who wanted to belong so badly he priced his own family into a ledger that was never going to give him anything back.