The responses began arriving before dawn.
Not through the Wren threading — through the Framework Inscription's bidirectional channel, through the Grave Walker's field reach, through the World Threat Response, through every between-frequency channel the network had established in the six weeks since Nara's first node reading.
Simultaneously.
From twelve cities.
From between-walkers who had felt the combined signal and recognized the frequency of three Death's Chosen running at full capacity and understood immediately what it meant that three had been running simultaneously when one alone had been enough to reach them.
