The cathedral let them out into open air for the first time in hours.
Flat staging plain between the dungeon's mouth and the treeline, Association perimeter vehicles clustered at its far edge, the sky overcast with late-afternoon American light that had gone the color of old tin. Eclipse veterans held the middle ring. The Association worked the inner. Vespera's forces sat somewhere past the trees.
Kaiden stood at the threshold of his domain with his women around him.
