The air was crisp and cold at the battalion headquarters in Kashmir, nestled within the towering snow-capped mountains. Captain Shashwat Rajvansh had arrived only a day ago, but there was no time to settle in. A soldier never truly rests especially not in a place as volatile as this.

Dressed in his camouflage uniform, he stood in the operations room, going through reports from the units under his command. The phone on his desk buzzed, and he picked it up immediately.