The peace after the first three cells had not lasted more than an hour.
Lucian's updated lattice grid was laid out across the command table in hard red lines. Two new signatures had taken the place on the far side of the capital rim, smaller than the first wave and much more precise. They did not charge the bridges or the tunnels. They were drifting along the damaged edge wards, probing where the defense had thinned after the initial fights.
"They are not trying to breach the core this time," Lucian said. "They are fishing for a soft route and waiting to see who comes to kill them."
Nyx studied the two moving marks. "So we do not send the whole board after one bait. We split. If they are scouts for a second wave, getting one team pinned and surrounded will fix it."
