The lights blazing in the distance dictated that they were closing in on the settlement, yet no matter how long they marched, they simply couldn't reach it; it felt as though the Five Overseers leading the vanguard were dragging them in a massive circle around the buildings. They weren't traversing the same streets or passing the same structures twice, but they hadn't halted to step inside a single one either.
As minutes chased one another, they breached a street where the foul stenches grew sickeningly dense, the lights flickered vastly dimmer than in previous sectors, and the structures looked as if they were on the verge of collapsing. A colossal wall sealed off the end of the dead-end alley flanked by two-story buildings, and the stench of piss had assaulted them before they even took a stride inside.
