Vespera's red eyes found his across the chokehold before the shout finished leaving his throat, her shadow lattice still holding three heavyweights pinned against the abyssal floor while her attention split to him with the seamless ease that defined the Shadow Monarch in combat.
"The magma path is collapsing." Kaiden called it across the line while his right blade punched through a Wraithstride's throat mid-stride, voice flat because panic was contagious and the fight at the gate had not paused. "Some weird glutton fucker is drinking the river dry. They've pushed past the spiral, about to breach the burrow tunnel into the Mire and take fifty percent of the ground according to the counter..."
Scarlet's head snapped from the heavyweight she'd been cooking. "I'll go! That's my domain!"
