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Chapter 71: Surrounded

The first impact drove me back against the archive wall.“Wren, left!” I shouted.She was already there, blade up. “They are trying to cut us apart.”“I see it. Hold the angle.”Ronan took the right side, breathing hard through the cut on his ribs. “Screen wolf is overlapping too far. Pull him in.”“I am trying,” the last screen wolf snarled, blocking a heavy axe strike. “There are too many.”An attacker lunged at me. I met him with full weight and put him down.“Calling power,” Wren said through her teeth. “Use it if you have it.”“I am reaching. It will not settle.”“Then make it settle.”“It is not listening.”Ronan drove his shoulder into another man and forced space. “Left side is thinner. We push there, we might open a path to the yard.”“Do it,” I said. “Now.”We drove left. For a moment the line bent.Then fresh bodies slammed into the gap from the opposite side.“They closed it,” Wren snapped. “They were waiting for the push.”The last screen wolf went down under two blades a

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Chapter 72: Breaking Through

The unit surged.I met the first blade and turned it aside with everything the unstable surge still gave me. Wren stayed tight on my left, limited by the damaged shoulder but refusing the gap.“Stay on your feet,” I told her.“I am on them. Watch your right.”Ronan forced himself upright against the wall behind us, one hand pressed hard to the wound across his shoulder and chest. “They are committing the last of their number. No one is circling wide anymore.”“I noticed,” I said.An attacker broke through on Wren’s side. She took the strike on her blade and shoved him back.“Asher’s voice is closer,” she said. “Listen.”I heard it then. Commands cutting through the larger noise of the outer fight, nearer than before.“Relief is coming,” Ronan said. “We only need to hold the line a little longer.”“Then we hold.”The lead wolf of the elite unit pushed forward himself, eyes locked on me. “Finish it before the gap closes.”“You first,” I answered.We crashed together. The impact rattled

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Chapter 73: Why They Left

The quiet felt wrong.Sable walked straight up to me, mud to the knees. “Confirmed. Full disengagement on every active approach. No rearguard. No visible traps. They are simply leaving.”Asher joined us. “Casualties are still being counted. Northwest secondary line took the worst of it. We held, but it cost us. The alliance group on the east is intact and asking for orders.”“Tell them to hold their position,” I said. “No one pursues a retreat we do not understand.”Callum looked between us. “This does not match any pattern I saw under Ysolde. She never abandoned a field advantage without a clear political reason.”“The Regent is not Ysolde,” Sable answered. “That is the problem.”I kept my eyes on the northwest. “Something pulled them. The elite unit failed. The main columns were still under pressure. Yet they left. Find out why.”Asher nodded. “I am sending runners to the outer posts for clearer sight lines.”“Do it.”We were still standing there when two wolves half-carried a third

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Chapter 74: No Word

The case sat open on the table between us.I read Garrick’s note a third time even though the words had not changed. A location. A warning that the Warden’s timeline was shorter than any of us had calculated. And the clear implication that he had not expected to deliver the information himself.Asher spoke first. “We cannot ignore it. If the location is real, every hour we spend debating is an hour the Warden keeps moving.”Sable leaned on the edge of the table. “We also cannot empty the camp while the Regent’s columns are still unaccounted for. They left once. They can return.”“I am not asking to empty the camp,” I said. “I am asking for a small rescue party and a clear priority. Garrick sent this ahead because he believed the information mattered more than the team. That does not mean we abandon the team.”Wren stood with her bound arm held close. “Who goes?”“Volunteers only. People who understand the ground and the risk. No one who is still needed to hold the outer markers if the

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Chapter 75: What He Sent

The first signal flare went up just after midday.It was the wrong color.Sable saw it before I did and was already moving. “That is the compromised signal. Not pursuit. Not living recovery. Compromised.”The command space went quiet in the way it only did when everyone understood the meaning at once.Asher’s voice was flat. “How long before they reach the gate?”“If they are still moving under their own power, less than an hour,” Sable answered. “If they are carrying wounded or worse, longer.”“Prepare the medical building,” I said. “And keep the outer watch tight. I do not want a second surprise while we are looking the other way.”Wren stayed beside me as the camp adjusted. “You knew this was likely.”“Knowing it and watching the flare are different things.”“I know.”Ronan arrived under escort, still bandaged, still too pale. The bond registered him with a low, tight pull.“The wrong flare,” he said.“Yes.”“Then we prepare for the version of the news that does not include a full

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Chapter 76: The Weight of What Remains

The archive room stayed lit long after the rest of the camp went to a restless quiet.I spread both sets of fragments across the main table. Garrick’s notes. The older records. Callum’s trail marks. The second case’s additional pieces. Together they formed a clearer line than any of us had held before.Sable arrived first. “Outer lines are steady. No sign of the columns turning back yet. I left standing orders to wake me the moment that changes.”“Good.”Asher came in next, followed by Wren and Callum. Ronan entered under escort and took a place near the wall without being asked to move closer.I did not waste time.“Garrick confirmed the location twice. Once in the case he sent ahead, once in the case recovered from the ambush site. The older fragments support the same ground. It is real. And he believed the Warden was already moving to finish something there.”Asher leaned over the map. “How far?”Callum answered. “If the marks are accurate, two days of hard travel for a small group

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Chapter 77: The Price of the Trail

First light came thin and gray.I stood in the archive doorway while Sable finished the last of the volunteer checks. Four wolves waited in the yard beyond her, already geared for fast travel. None of them looked rested. None of them looked uncertain either.Sable turned to me. “These four. Two trackers, one Ironback who can read the older ground signs, and one from the alliance group who knows the southern corridors. All volunteers. All clear-eyed about the odds.”“Names.”She gave them. I repeated each one silently so I would not forget who we were sending after a man who might already be beyond reach.Asher joined us, arms folded. “Outer lines report no movement from the columns overnight. They are still withdrawn. That can change the moment we commit people to the road.”“I know.”Wren came up on my other side, shoulder still bound. “You can still hold them back another day.”“And give the Warden another day of quiet,” I said. “Garrick did not spend what he spent so we could hesit

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Chapter 78: The Second Signal

The morning stretched thinner than it should have.I stayed in the command space with the maps and the two cases while the camp worked around the absence of the second party. Every half hour a runner from the outer posts confirmed the same thing. No movement from the Regent’s columns. No flare from the southern corridors.Asher came in after the third check. “Still nothing. Either they have not reached the ambush ground yet or they are moving more carefully than the first team.”“They were told to be careful.”“Careful does not always survive contact.”Wren sat on the edge of the table, arms bound against her body. “You are already thinking about going after them.”“I am thinking about what happens if the next flare is the wrong color again.”Ronan stood near the wall under escort, listening. The bond remained quiet, a steady low presence that offered no guidance.Sable entered with a short written update. “Outer rotations are clean. I pulled one extra tracker back from the east line

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Chapter 79: First Light

Night did not bring rest. It brought lists.Sable worked through the volunteer names with me in the command space while the rest of the camp moved around the decision. We kept the group small. Eight total, including Ronan and me. Two trackers. Two Ironbacks who could read older ground signs. Two fighters who had already survived the elite unit’s quieter methods. Sable herself. And Ronan.Asher stood on the other side of the table with his arms folded. “I still do not like the count. If the columns return while you are gone, we lose the people who have been holding the center.”“If we wait for a safer count, the taken are gone and the Warden’s window closes,” I said. “This is the number we can afford.”Wren sat on the edge of the table, bound arm held close. “I should be on the list.”“No. You are still healing, and someone who understands both the Ironback side and the original Kade structure needs to stay with Asher. That is you.”She looked like she wanted to argue. Instead, she nod

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Chapter 80: Already Seen

No one moved for a full breath.Sable kept her voice low. “We are exposed if we step into the open. We are also exposed if we stay here long enough for them to decide the next angle.”Ronan studied the spear and the carved marks. “Garrick left this after he was already hurt. He wanted anyone following to know the trail was no longer clean.”One of the trackers shifted his weight. “Do we turn back and find another approach?”“There is no other approach that still reaches the target before the window closes,” I said. “We go forward. But we do not walk the center line they marked for us.”Sable nodded once. “Left tree line. Keep the open ground in sight. No one breaks formation without a signal.”We moved.The shift into the denser trees on the left felt like stepping out of a drawn breath. Every footfall was measured. The bond sat tight under my ribs, sharper than it had been on the earlier trail.Ronan spoke under his breath without looking at me. “They are close enough that the sense

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