The real evacuation began before sunset.

No alarm.

No screaming.

No one waiting for rogues to cross the line.

Elara had ordered civilians underground while the sky was still clear.

Some complained.

One elder called it excessive.

A mother thanked he

Silas did not attack like a rogue.

He attacked like someone who had studied every failure Crimson Fang ever made.

Three false pushes hit the outer walls at once.

A fourth struck the western creek.

Then a fifth group drove straight at the old service gate.

Stone stop

The second wave broke the southern line in four minutes.

Not because Crimson Fang failed.

Because no wall was built for that many bodies.

Feral wolves poured through the trees.

Marked.

Screaming.

Driven forward by the Eclipse Shard.

Elara felt every black m