"Look at the congestion across the mountain gorge," Ava said through her binoculars, pointing down into the churning mud of Intersection Four.
"Over fifteen hundred hospital wagons and fifty thousand civilians are trapped in a two-mile bottleneck," Serian reported, his eyes scanning the steep cliff walls.
"The mudslide from the upper ridge will reach this canyon in less than twenty minutes," Vasa warned, monitoring the seismic displacement on her console.
"The single stone bridge across the chasm collapsed under the tremor ten minutes ago," Lady Seraphina said, her voice filled with acute sorrow.
"Mothers are carrying their infants through the freezing mud while the elderly struggle to walk," Lady Teresa reported, tears in her eyes.
"The hospital carriages from the southern mining clinics have over four hundred critical trauma patients on life support," Lord Cassian stated with urgent concern.
