Location:Seven Peaks — Command Center, Eastern Perimeter
Date/Time:TC1853.12.28-29 — Morning to Evening
The first courier arrived at dawn on the twenty-eighth, half-dead in the saddle.
He'd ridden four days from Cloudrest on a horse that had been spiritual energy-enhanced once and was now running on stubborn willpower and whatever the wave-touched grass along the road was doing to its stamina. The courier — a young disciple named Darren, one of Naida's people — slid from the saddle at the gatehouse, handed his satchel to the nearest guard, and said "Sera needs help" before his knees gave out.
Two more couriers arrived by midday. One from Fifth District. One who'd made it as far as the outskirts of Imperial City before turning back because the roads had become too dangerous to travel alone.
