The next few days passed with motion instead of rest.
People crossed the five continents through the Intercontinental Teleportation Array.
At first, they came with awe.
Then curiosity.
Then purpose.
Food, techniques, customs, clothing, jokes, insults, and grief began crossing the world.
Lucien watched the reports and felt the result he had hoped for begin to take shape.
The array had not only moved people.
It had started moving understanding.
The work of the World Fortification Plan continued beside it.
Lilith reported that the first evacuation shelters had been completed.
The five continents were too vast for one wave of construction to satisfy anything except impatience.
But the first shelters stood.
That mattered.
...
Anvil-Horn's reports were much the same.
The first Tidewatch towers had risen along priority coasts.
Their foundations were ugly, deep, stubborn things driven into stone and sea-facing cliffs. They did not look elegant.
