RENEGADES OF EXCESS RAPTURE WEAPON TEAMS

They got dressed. Don't mistake it for modesty. The Renegades of Excess understand something most armies never will: attention is a resource, and you spend it deliberately. Some days that means showing everything. Some days it means showing nothing at all - and watching the room lean in anyway. The Rapture Weapon Teams came from the ordained houses - high walls, cold dormitories, decades of prescribed habits and regulation veils. And here is the thing those houses never grasped: clothing chosen for you is a cage, but clothing chosen by you is a weapon. These women spent twenty years being dressed by doctrine. Now they dress themselves - hearts stitched where seals used to sit, straps and buckles arranged with the same ferocious intentionality they once brought to vestments. The outfit is not a uniform. It is a costume, and they have always loved the theatre of it. Three heavy weapon teams, each gun mounted on spiked mechanical legs that move with the crew like a third member of the