Location:Seven Peaks — Gatehouse, Luminous Haven, Command Center
Date/Time:TC1854.01.02-03 — Morning to Evening
The mountain road climbed through country that looked like a different world.
Kael had ridden three days through the post-wave landscape — dark towns, torchlit roads, families walking south with everything they owned on their backs. He'd shared fires with refugees who didn't recognize him and wouldn't have cared if they did. Captain Renard had kept watch while he slept in roadside shelters that smelled of smoke and desperation and the particular hopelessness of people who'd been abandoned by every institution they'd been taught to trust.
Then the road turned south, and the world changed.
