The night raid hits six hours before we're supposed to present the evidence.
Of course it does.
The alarm is different this time — not the three-beat breach sequence but the sustained pulse that means multiple incursion points. I'm out of bed and into the corridor before I've fully woken, and the bond is already blazing with Damon's alertness, sharp and directed, which tells me he was awake before the alarm triggered.
He knew.
Or the bond knew, and he listened.
***
The attack comes in four directions.
I filed the reports as they came in, each one tightening the pressure behind my sternum. North gate: a vehicle breach, the same kind of explosive sequence as the road ambush, designed to draw sentinels out of position. East wall: three teams of hunters with silver-tip rifles, using the
