Location:Seven Peaks — Command Center
Date/Time:TC1855.11.25 (Night)
Raven walked through the settlement at midnight.
The residential terraces were dark — formation lights dimmed to their nighttime amber, the living architecture breathing slow. Eighty-three thousand people sleeping in buildings that hadn't existed two years ago, on a mountain that had been claimed ground before it was home. She passed the construction site where Greer's crew had left their scaffolding neat and their tools covered. She passed the communal kitchen, closed, the scent of the evening's stew still hanging in the cold air. She passed the school, empty, the children's formation slates stacked on shelves that Bess Cade's compound held together.
