The veterans had been noticing it.
They mentioned it among themselves with the calm of people who had seen enough variations that one more didn't change their disposition, but who didn't ignore it either, because ignoring it would have been ignoring precisely the type of information the wall required not be ignored. How many they eliminated. How many arrived afterward. The balance was never clearly positive on the extermination side.
The numbers didn't appear to deplete… If anything, the opposite.
Dunn had said it on the second night, in the same tone he had used for the wind at position seventeen: "Their numbers don't seem to exhaust themselves. If anything…"
He hadn't finished the sentence and yet it was the most precise description available.
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The first afternoon with real activity arrived almost at the end of the first week.
