The fourth raid went deeper than any of the previous three.
Guild intelligence had been mapping the overlay's interior fauna distribution since the inversion, building a picture of where the creature concentrations were highest and what was driving the distribution patterns. The answer to the second question was the same answer Cael had arrived at independently on the first night: warmth. The fauna were clustering around the thermal signatures of the residential buildings in the overlay's interior, the occupied structures that hadn't been fully evacuated, the ones where people had stayed because they hadn't believed the alerts or couldn't leave or simply hadn't understood what was happening until the city around them changed.
The guild estimated sixty-three civilians still inside the ove
