~Caden's POV~
The alert comes through at 3:02 in the morning, three separate signals arriving within the same minute from three different points along the northern gate, and Caden is awake and dressed before the second one finishes registering on his phone.
He has run enough border incidents over the past months to know, almost before he has fully processed the details, that this one sits in a different category entirely. The earlier incursions were probes, measured, testing rotation gaps and patrol timing, the kind of pressure designed to find a weakness rather than to force a breach. This is not that. The reports flooding in over the next several minutes describe coordinated movement along the entire northern perimeter, numbers far beyond anything Dorian has committed before, the unmis
