Todos los capítulos de Reborn Before the Mark: I Married His Wolfless Uncle: Capítulo 251 - Capítulo 260

The Greyhaven report came first: an attack at the outer approach, with no casualty count Lorelai trusted yet.The Heart Node warning followed. Whitecliff was worse: the Citadel sealed, its signal towers dark, the messenger cut off before he could learn more.The command cart held all three maps beneath a canvas awning. Lorelai spread Greyhaven on the left, Whitecliff in the center, and the Heart Node on the right. The field around her had become an area of carts, wounded, and runners, but the paper made the distances cruelly clear.Greyhaven’s road bent away beneath a smudge of charcoal where the report had been folded too often. Whitecliff’s map was marked with the gates that no longer answered. The Heart Node corridor was the narrowest line of all, a passage that could carry aid or become a trap if she treated it as an afterthought. None of the papers offered a clean choice. They offered only the cost of choosing late.Karl stood across from her without

Lorelai rode with the Heart Node convoy because uncertainty was already moving faster than the carts. The civilians behind her needed a decision, not a lesson in how evacuation worked.The road narrowed between wet stone and low brush. Every wheel left a visible line in the mud. Lorelai watched those lines more closely than the dark water below the corridor. A route could be copied. A missing cart could be found. Panic became harder to hide when its tracks remained behind it.At the first turn, she stopped the convoy before fear could compress it into a trap. “Stay together. No one follows a dark road just because it looks shorter.”The first checkpoint lay beyond the turn. Its lamp had gone out, but the door still stood closed. Lorelai sent two keepers to the side path and walked the remaining distance with the medical lead beside her.The custodian should have been waiting beneath the eave. His stool was empty. The ledger on the small table

The first false seal came loose beneath Lorelai's thumb with a sound like wet paper tearing.Water had climbed the steps below Avelune’s map table, carrying the metallic smell of the damaged Node. Two custodians fought the leak while Lorelai kept the evacuation map from sliding into the water.“That flow reaches the shelters,” a custodian warned.The poison reached them as a metallic smell under the rising water. Lorelai went down into the cold beside the custodians because the shelter branch was already threatened. For several brutal minutes the current shoved at her knees and pain flashed through the old injury in her hand. She did not need to understand every hidden channel; she needed the poisoned flow kept away from the people behind those doors.A custodian caught her elbow when her boot slipped. By the time Lorelai climbed back onto the steps, soaked and shaking, the dark surge was moving away from the shelters. The clean result c

Caelan reached Whitecliff's east gate as the first cart struck the closed bars from the inside.Civilians crowded the east gate with children and wounded between them while vampire fire struck the outer wall. Caelan saw at once that opening the main bars would expose everyone pressed behind them. A smaller service door offered less room and less danger. He pointed to it and let the gate captain decide whether to use it.“Open the passage,” Caelan said.The gate captain turned on him. “The eastern road is compromised. If we open it, they follow the civilians through.”Caelan pointed to the smaller service door. “Get the civilians through without turning the whole gate into a target.”The captain chose the smaller door. Once it opened, Caelan stopped thinking about command and started lifting people. He carried a burned woman through first, then went back into the smoke because too many frightened bodies still stoo

The silence from Eve's convoy reached Karl as a line of empty lamps on the copied plan.He did not need the map to tell him what the absence meant. The true convoy had gone silent, and his first instinct was already pulling him toward Lorelai’s road. He stayed where she had asked him to stand.The lower gate shook beneath a second impact.Karl turned back to Greyhaven's corridor. Civilians were still crossing between the broken gate and the cart road, trapped in the narrow space where a shield line could protect them only if it stayed a line. The captains who had chosen to hold the evacuation lane waited for an order.“The corridor stays open,” Karl said. “Three shields wide. Civilians through the center. No one leaves the line to chase.”A captain looked toward the breached street. “They are falling back.”“Then they want us to follow. Hold the corridor.”He took the first positio