The vehicle cut through what was left of the swarm at speeds the rookie track had never been cleared to run.
It was Vespera's. A black, unmarked thing and a pilot up front who didn't speak. The windows were one-way. The cabin sat eight comfortably and was sealed against everything Vespera felt like sealing it against.
Outside, the range was still burning in places. The fight had stretched for long. Awakened Association members and fighters from the veteran track had held the perimeter, together with Vespera and Kaiden's team.
The evolved monsters had been brutal but finite. Once the bulk of the wave broke, the rest had been dealt with, but the cost was high and paid in human lives.
Dozens fell in the encounter, and the mood was further soured by the monster carcasses, the proof of their effort, disintegrated.
