Location:Seven Peaks — Gatehouse, Processing Center, Verdant Spire
Date/Time:TC1854.01.06-07 — Morning to Evening
They came out of the east like something the forest had chewed up and spat out.
Forty-seven people. Coop counted them from the gatehouse overlook as they emerged from the tree line onto the approach road — a straggling column of exhaustion that stretched fifty meters from the first walker to the last. No formation. No discipline. The particular shamble of people who'd been moving on willpower for so long that their bodies had stopped consulting their brains about whether to continue.
