Location:Seven Peaks — Multiple
Date/Time:TC1856.08.14 – TC1856.08.15
The mountain moved differently when it was preparing for war.
Not faster — tighter. The casual rhythms of a settlement replaced by the compressed efficiency of a population that had drilled for this. Families walking calmly toward shelters with bags packed weeks ago. Children in lines, counting each other the way the education programs had taught them, smaller ones holding hands with older ones. Mei's voice carrying across the residential terrace — not shouting, not commanding, the measured clarity of a fifteen-year-old direct disciple who had been running evacuation drills since she was twelve and could move three hundred people in seven minutes without raising her voice.
