With Solenne gone on the extraction mission and Vaeren's chosen people guiding her, Larkspur Haven entered another stretch of uneasy peace.
Peace was not really the right word for it, because too much was still broken for that, but compared to what the planet had looked like when Aurelian first arrived, the change was obvious, something that could not be ignored.
The rain Elowen had prepared had already broken the back of the infection tide, and now the worst of the surface fighting had turned into cleanup, rescue, and the slow work of rebuilding, which is progressing at a slow but steady pace.
The engineering shipgirls were even more efficient than Aurelian had expected, and he had already expected a lot from them.
