The girls offered no verbal confirmation. They simply focused, layering their four ethereal presences alongside Selphira's, directing their entire collective perception toward the sealed stone door, meditating in the freezing wind, waiting for the pulse of an energy signature that had not yet arrived.
Waiting for Ren.
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Back in Yano, Arturo was still managing to hold the line.
Barely… Flawless logistical management was the singular reason the defensive front remained standing without suffering mass casualties, and Arturo managed the sprawling battlefield as naturally as he breathed, shifting vital resources from one failing sector to another a half-second before a total collapse occurred.
But "sustainable" was rapidly devolving into "desperate" with every passing wave.
Every available combatant was deployed to support the wall in Yano.
