Skull did exactly as he said he would. Detaching himself from the main command group, he was silently on the move.
From the shadows of the perimeter, he could clearly see the chaotic bottleneck that had formed at the main entrance. The enraged members of the Gilt Rats and the Black Hounds were still frantically trying to cram right through the relatively small, ruined doorway of the compound. They were practically stepping over their own wounded in a blind frenzy to get inside.
Because of the architectural choke point, the invaders were severely limited in the sheer amount of people that could actually push into the immediate area to fight against the defenders.
