Simple. Effortless. It was quietly stunning how well they moved together. He had seen Sam before in the kwoon room, watched him spar with his brother, but he'd never taken the mat with him before. He could watch Sam and know where he was going to move, how he was going to swing the staff even before his muscles shifted to act.

They could drift together. He could step into another Jager with a pilot that trusted him.

"Not bad," Marshall Singer declared. "Not bad at all. Want you two in for a test drift before we send you out. Last step before you two go live."

They don't need to test. Gadreel knows that when the time comes, he and Sam will be able to do it, but he nods all the same.