The alarms had sent out warnings, everyone that was not a fighter had found safety. The base had gone silent.
The gates of Fortress Four had been opened and closed twice, only to send out reinforcements. Sunshine was geared up like the other soldiers, gripping her hammer which hummed faintly from the charge that was coming off her hands. A trail of ice followed everywhere she passed around the base.
She was regretting not having Father Nicodemus's abilities to fly because she was stuck in the first wall, unable to monitor the situation in the second and third wall with her very eyes.
"They are here." A voice whispered into her comms.
Static.
Major Elio's voice came as well, frantic. "Suni, third wall, near the residence of the villagers. The ground has fallen in where they hang furs to dry. The rats are not attacking; they are merging as soon as they come out of the hole. Hundreds. Maybe thousands. They are not waiting to picked off one by one."
