Night Vision: Inside Caroline’s Training
She Walks Into the Fire Like It Owes Her Answers A Project Heartless Reflection Some warriors were forged in daylight. Caroline Cauldin was not. From the beginning of her training, the night was her inheritance — a realm she learned to treat not as darkness, but as clarity . Where others stumbled between shadows, she saw the world sharpen: angles, edges, breath-patterns, intention. The scientists in Echo Black’s covert program called it hyper-visual acuity . The instructors whispered another name for it: “The Black Angel’s Vision.” In Japan, where the final shaping of her discipline took place, Caroline trained under a retired intelligence operative obsessed with the old samurai concept of tsukiyo no kōgeki — the moonlit strike. Attacks delivered not at dusk or dawn, but in the moment when darkness and light coexist, when the world teeters and a single step can rewrite fate. Under moonlight, she learned to move without announcing herself, to read the tremor ...