The preparations were finally finished, and one by one the legions split off and marched out, each dispatched to hunt down every last insect that had crawled its way into the Aleris estate.
Claude himself walked out of the mansion and fell in with the Silver Vanguard, despite not having a single combat bone in his body. And his joining turned Albert into the happiest man drawing breath that night, because now there was someone with the authority to keep Rora on a leash.
As for everyone else, they peeled away toward their assigned fronts. Jax included. He was drifting south for the moment, exactly as instructed, even though every instinct in him was screaming east, the direction Echidna had caught Loki's scent. He wanted no part of a scene, so for now he tagged along quietly behind the wall of professors and students up ahead.
