The two surviving insectoids did not attack.
Siv found them hiding beneath a collapsed bridge three streets from the sunken court. One had lost an arm. The other pressed fragments of cloth against a wound in its side. Neither carried a seal, and neither made any effort to follow Varkesh.
The quickling returned without revealing herself to the insects.
"They are finished." She told Aderic. "Alive, but not fighting."
That left one enemy team.
Max's elites occupied a former transit court near the center of the ruined city. Four streets entered the broad rectangular space. Broken walkways crossed overhead, connecting buildings that no longer possessed complete upper floors. A dry fountain filled the middle. Beneath its cracked basin, Dagna found the remains of a control network that once operated doors throughout the district.
The doors were gone.
Their channels remained.
