On Day 28, the secondary line broke.
A 400-meter section on the western flank, specifically — where Durnok's Crushist infantry had been rotating fresh companies against a garrison that hadn't received reinforcements in three days. The breakthrough came at a junction between two regiments — an eighteen-inch gap in the earthwork that the post-construction survey had flagged for repair.
The repair hadn't happened. Five days of fighting converted "scheduled maintenance" into "thing we'll do when we're not dying."
The gap became twelve meters in four minutes. Two hundred Crushist heavy infantry — Earth-domain blessed, eighty pounds of armor, trained to push — poured through. Then Durnok sent eight hundred more.
Corporal Maren Ashwick saw the breach open from thirty meters away.
