Eryx.
I waited until the compound was fully quiet.
Three hours past midnight. The guard rotation had a gap of four minutes between the east wall and the secondary entrance — I had timed it six times over two nights from the ridge. Four minutes was enough.
Brennan stayed on the ridge with a clear line of sight to the main gate. Soren took the east wall.
Cade came in with me through the secondary entrance, both of us moving low and fast through the overgrowth, through the door that had a lock that Cade had been working on for a day and a half.
It opened on the third try.
We were inside.
The courtyard was empty. The training racks along the far wall. The door she had come through that first morning. I had memorised the layout from the ridge — main building, left corridor, third door.
