Epilogue
The humans weren’t gone—not the ones that belonged to the land and could maybe be talked into behaving towards it with the respect it was due, and not the ones that came from who knew where with their giant metal beasts—but they had been forced to retreat.
It very likely seemed like a series of unfortunate accidents to them, but what mattered was that the broken machines and injured workers had slowed them down enough to convince them to move in another direction. The Owls were still keeping an eye on them and had agreed to pass on any relevant information, and the Leopards were patrolling on their side so the Jaguars were in the privileged position of being protected from two directions.
It meant Ghian and Aalyan could relax.
Except for the small matter of the two young infan
