Location:Seven Peaks — Northern Gate, Northern Quarter, Bryn's Garden
Date/Time:TC1855.04.25
The formation perimeter detected them at two kilometers.
Silas's network pinged recognition — not individual signatures but a category. Northern. Large. Multiple. The alert was quiet, routed through the command chain rather than the general alarm, because Bjorn had told them a week ago that the delegation would arrive when it arrived, and there was no point in specifying a date. "Northerners don't schedule. They come when the walking's done."
Raven was in the command center when the alert came. She set down the report she was reading — Naida's latest on the three eastern arrivals, all still reading green after five days, all still under surveillance — and went to the gate.
