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Chapter 14 : Elsa Strikes
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2026-02-06 18:31:34
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Lena's POVThe first wave hit us at the two minute mark.Six soldiers from the northern approach, moving with the coordinated precision of people who had done this kind of thing many times and were not particularly worried about what they were going to find. They should have been more worried. Marcus took the lead position and Darion and Riven covered the flanks and I held the center and we stopped them, but stopping them cost something and the something it cost was time and the time we did not have to spend.Drea said three minutes remaining.The second wave came from the east before the first one was fully resolved. Larger, eight soldiers, and these ones were not moving with the standard approach pattern, they were moving with the specific formation of people who had been briefed on exactly what was in front of them and had adjusted their strategy accordingly. Someone had communicated what we were doing here. Someone had taken the information that a strike team was placing charges a
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Darion's POVRonan put the map on the table on a Wednesday morning with everyone present and said what he had to say without preamble because he had never been someone who built up to things."The gateway," he said, tapping the location. "We hit it directly."The room was quiet for a moment."Define directly," Marcus said."Iron charges built into the gateway's structural perimeter," Ronan said. "Not one, not two. Enough to destabilize the threshold architecture from the physical side. Enough that even if we cannot close it the way the ritual would have, we damage it badly enough that nothing else comes through." He looked around the table. "We stand whatever Fae are already on this side. Cut off the reinforcements. Stop the army from growing while we figure out the rest.""The gateway is the most heavily defended location in the city," Sable said. She was not dismissing the idea. She was doing what she always did, establishing the facts before the discussion went somewhere the facts
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