Back at the Eastern Cardinal, life moved on.
Up in the sky, in one of Eclipse's ships, Lucas had the controls and the afternoon sun was hitting the viewport at the angle that made the harbor look like it was made of gold from up here. Seraleth was in the co-pilot seat with her legs crossed and an ice cream that she had somehow produced from somewhere on the ship. Marcus was behind them with his boots up on the console that Reyna kept telling him not to put his boots on and Reyna was beside him reading something on her tablet.
"The cat four in the southern district yesterday," Marcus said. "That's the third one this month."
"Fourth," Lucas said.
Marcus looked at the back of his head. "Fourth?"
"There was one Tuesday in the outer eastern zone. Kelvin flagged it before we deployed. Category four, underground, came up through a drainage tunnel. Response team handled it before it reached the surface population."
"I didn't see that report."
