10
Ruarc
The assault came on the eleventh night.
Not at the south-western boundary, where they had been expecting it. Not at the rowan circuit marker, which they had reinforced two days ahead of schedule after Liadan's Fáidh had put out a sharp, specific fragment at midday — three bars of a sound-pattern she had been tracking for a week, suddenly intensified, with the quality of something that had finished its mapping and was ready to test. He had moved the reinforcement forward immediately and had not explained to the pack why the change in schedule, only that it was necessary, which was the kind of statement that carried in a long-established pack without requiring justification.
The assault came at the north wall.
At the third watch, in the coldest part of the night, at the section
