It had also been considerably more than that.
Because the corridor's position had turned out to be the engagement's most consequential containment point.
The students on the main line were facing the horde from the front, but the horde's mass extended around the field in ways that made the flanking angle that the splinter element had occupied a genuine vulnerability. If that corridor had failed — if something had broken through consistently rather than the single near-miss that Daveon had addressed — the students on the main line would have been fighting from two directions simultaneously without warning.
It had not failed.
The four students in it had not let it fail.
