KAEL SHADOWBORN
Twelve hours isn't a lot of time when you're trying to defend a compound against a force you can't fully identify yet, but it's not nothing either, and I've spent worse hours doing worse math.
I've got warriors placed within the first sixty minutes. Border rotation doubled, secondary teams on the residential wing, archers on the wall line who haven't had a real reason to be up there in years. It comes together fast because some part of me's apparently been bracing for exactly this since the day the enforcers first showed up demanding Aria be handed over. I just didn't know when it would land.
Marcus moves through the plan with me, sharp, no wasted words, the way he's been since Aria cut that fake bond out of him. I notice it every time now. He questions things he used to
