Within thirty minutes of Thalen's order, the compound of Tharion Citadel was swarming with activity.
People outside wondered what was happening. Alertness peaked because not just Tharion, but even the Public Citadel of Drywall was assembling as many Drifters as possible.
A lockdown order had been passed, and people were being kept off the streets as much as possible. An evacuation to the inner sanctum of the city was underway.
Where the Chancellor resided. The place led to an underground shelter that could house twenty thousand people.
In fact, this shelter wasn't really a shelter but the first city that was called Drywall, before another one was created on the surface. The underground city now served many purposes, but today it was being used to keep the citizens safe.
However, South Drywall had a population of over fifty thousand citizens, although twenty percent of that population—let's say—were drifters and would be participating in whatever was about to happen.
