Caelid Highway North Novels & Stories

He expanded the map. The route lit up—delta south, then curling east through a web of lesser wards and forgotten maintenance roads. “She’s on a C‑27,” he said. “They’ll use the old reallocation arteries here, here, and here.” He pointed to three junctions. “They’re fast. Not as fast as we can be if we cut over the ridge.” Nyra, who’d come up in time to catch most of that, nodded once. “Plan it,” she said. “Daire needs something to hit that’s not his own walls.”

of the Cavallo family had been replaced by a global cage of my own making. "We need a 'Dead Zone,'" I said, my fingers flying over the keys as I tried to map a route that bypassed the newly-activated Federal surveillance grid. "We can't use the highways. The Weaver might be lobotomized, but the 'Quiet Ones'—the sleeper agents in the telecom companies—they’ll be manually tracking every MAC address that doesn't belong to a Federal unit. We have to move through the 'Analog Corridor'." We spent the next four hours navigating the subterranean world of the North Shore. This wasn't a scenic drive; it was a grueling, tactical retreat through drainage tunnels, abandoned rail spurs, and the dense, swa

Cole kicked open the maintenance hatch, revealing a narrow tunnel lit only by faint red emergency lights. “Go!” he shouted. Sienna climbed down first, her boots hitting the wet metal below. The air was thick with the smell of rust and ozone. Cole followed, sealing the hatch behind them. “Where does this lead?” she asked, panting. “Old service line under the city. If we can reach the north bridge before dawn, we can scramble your link signal with the field dampener there.” “North bridge,” she repeated, remembering Jax’s earlier message. He’d told her to go there.

He turned away from the main street, however. “Where are we going, daddy?” She wondered, surprised by the sudden direction change. “To confirm a suspicion of mine,” Talen replied. “The NES are coming in from Rideten.” “I guess, because the other entries into the town cross the river.” “There are only three roads that cross the mountain and forest. The Old Main Road which was the original road in and out of the region, Fraser’s Pass, and the underpass which I paid a hefty amount of money to build fifty years ago,” he added ruefully.

"I am the navigator. I am providing telemetry." "You're annoying." "I am keeping you alive." They hit the main road. Elion merged into traffic, keeping his head down. "Where are we going?" Elion asked. "Away," Cale said. "Specifics, Cale. North? South?" "North," Cale decided. "Density decreases north. Fewer cameras. More tree cover." "Upstate?" "Further. Canada. Or the Arctic." "I don't have a passport on me." "Borders are lines on a map. They are negotiable."

It was rush hour, and the road was bustling with traffic. Jade watched in terror as Caelan maneuvered the car through the sea of vehicles, narrowly avoiding collisions multiple times. Caelan ignored Jade's pleas, his gaze fixed straight ahead. His knuckles whitened as he gripped the steering wheel, veins bulging. With a sharp turn, he merged onto the highway. Jade watched helplessly as they got further and further from the university. Caelan showed no intention of stopping. Instead, he sped up as they entered the highway, causing Jade's anxiety to spike.

Streets were narrow but straight as they led into the town. The main road of Loctar, called the Benian Highway, began at the market and ran through the entire city and out the other side. It did not end until it was in the far North, well beyond Rylltòl and even farther north to the ancient protective Semian city of Putai. The Benian Highway was built by the ancient Coths to open up trade between the lands of the North and those of the South, which were divided by the high precipices of the Relp Mountains that stretched westward out of the Leptonis Mountains.

The Alemia Royal Palace, once a place of corruption and incompetence, had now become the Aeternum Alemia Regional Administrative Headquarters—the center of operations for the reconstruction effort. From here, President Kaiser Mies Sai, alongside key government officials, military officers, and industry leaders, began organizing the largest rebuilding project in the history of the continent. Among the first and most ambitious projects undertaken was Project Phoenix, a nationwide highway system that would span from the north to the south, linking every major city, town, and village in Alemia to one unified network. A Highway Across the Nation Andrea Henschel, Minister of Resources and Infrastr