They left the building area and took the main road toward the middle of the base, where the Command Center stood.
Yunera walked half a step to the left again, and Kimmy didn't mention it this time.
The ground started to hum before she heard anything. It came up through her shoes first, a slow, heavy vibration from the northern road, then the engines followed, several of them, pulling something much heavier than ordinary trucks.
Brakes hissed somewhere ahead.
A voice called out near the checkpoint, and another answered it.
Kimmy slowed down.
She could feel the people in the convoy without trying.
Drivers, escorts riding along the side, a few soldiers who had stepped off to clear the junction. All of them were ordinary, living presences, and all of them were tired in the same way, as if they had been on the road for a long time.
The trailers behind them were easy enough to read.
