Chapter 213: Directive Nine (1)
The northern gate opened at first light.
GROAN.
Forty tons of Star-Iron rolled out onto the dead road on eleven heavy transports. They were followed by scaffolding wagons, water tankers and a field kitchen.
Two hundred and six workers of Bastion Seven walked out through a wall that most of them had never once stepped past in their lives. They had lived their whole lives surrounded by the walls.
Master Engineer Dorn Halvers rode the lead wagon. He carried the expression of a man who had waited thirty years for this single morning.
A Morning of Liberation!
This was the first step. First step to fulfill a long lasted wish of their ancestors. A wish that will grant them their freedom!
"Keep the spacing!" he bellowed down the line.
