Gareth was at the railing when Michael came up and the city outside was in the particular state that the pulse had been showing him from the lobby but seeing it from elevation made it different in a way that the pulse didn't communicate.
The variants were at the wall.
Not through it yet, the first one had hit the north face and the turret had engaged and the sound of the engagement was a sharp mechanical sound that Michael had read about in the turret specs and was now hearing for the first time in the courtyard below.
The turret tracking the first variant at speed was the fastest targeting cycle the advanced unit could run and it was running it and the first variant went down at the wall base and the turret cycled immediately to the second.
The second variant was at the wall corner.
Not the face. The corner. The northeast corner where the overhang bracket changed angle and the exterior geometry created a brief tracking shadow in the northeast turret's arc.
