Ronan's account of what happened next reached me only in fragments through the earpiece connection over the following tense hour, brief updates shouted between moments of chaos that painted a picture I could only partially piece together while sitting helpless miles away with Mabel recovering slowly beside me.
The well house entrance proved exactly as Rowan remembered, a stone structure disguising a stairway descending far deeper than its modest exterior suggested possible, and the defenses waiting within matched Mabel's warnings closely enough that the convoy's preparation likely saved lives that might otherwise have been lost to an ambush they had no way of anticipating without her guidance.
They're fighting through the lower levels, Cole's voice reported at one point, breathless and t
