Book 6. Chapter 16: Interlude: Tamery
Tamery rolled out of bed, woken by thumping at her doorframe. Adrenaline did the rest, shaking off sleep in one surge.
Not a siren today. Just banging on the door. She was safe, this wasn't an attack.
“I’m awake,” She called out, “On the way.”
The door knocks stopped.
How many hours of sleep did she get this time? Seven? It’d been a solid week since the last attack, maybe the bastards really had finally run dry on munitions.
She put on her pants, an old shirt, and stormed out the doorway.
The town had been settled on a small mite-made squat structure. For the first time in a very long time, humanity hadn’t been constrained to building a city around wherever a pillar heart was found, and instead could venture out and put a flag down on the location that offered the most habitable location.
Normally, it would take weeks to search through all the compiled maps the Undersiders of Capra’Nor had. And after getting a list of possible places, she’d need to send out expeditions to survey the area in more detail and get a feel for what’s there and what could be done. Hard to know a place just by searching through a dusty map.
That’s where the machines helped. Yrob and his Runners turned out to be map hoarders. Made sense to her, of all machines Runners loved to roam around and find new places. Connecting their own internal maps gave her people far more options to pick from.