The abandoned forge buildings stood silent under the afternoon sun, their empty workshops and scattered equipment telling a story of hasty evacuation that satisfied the Continental Intelligence Council forces even as it frustrated their deeper investigative objectives.
Supreme Commander Aldain Vorthak moved through the facility with the methodical precision that had made him the Council's most effective analyst of unconventional threats, his enhanced spiritual senses cataloging every detail that might reveal the true nature of what they had confronted.
The morning's battle had yielded tactical intelligence that painted the mysterious Light Guardian organization in terms both impressive and troubling.
