"You'd want to cut off access to the outside. Secure the port, the roads," Ichabod says, hating that he knows so much about this from his own time as a soldier. "Box them in so there's nowhere to flee."
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"You'd want to cut off access to the outside. Secure the port, the roads," Ichabod says, hating that he knows so much about this from his own time as a soldier. "Box them in so there's nowhere to flee."