The Silver Pact
Mira declared, her hand resting firmly on her broadsword.
"They won't happen," I replied. I pulled a sealed leather parchment from inside my tunic, laying it over Gideon's marked map. "This is the sovereign counter-order Code White. Caelen, you will ride to the Western Pass tonight. The third and fifth vanguards will not abandon their posts. Instead, they will dig into the stone bunkers and go dark no fires, no active warding beacons. To anyone watching from the sky, the pass will appear abandoned, but our lines will remain fully manned."