The clock started at the hour, and seven commands moved on a country that had stopped answering its own boards.
Nobody called it an attack on the capital, since that is not what any of it was. Six teams went at six pieces of national infrastructure that had been built by people they had already beaten.
Kendra went at the freight lock with two convoy columns and a dispatcher list four seasons old. She did not approach the node as a raid, since a freight architecture answers to schedules rather than to force.
Her people came down the Ironvale trunk with loaded manifests and posted prices, moving as traffic rather than as an assault. Every one of those manifests was real, because a lock built on dispatch logic checks the load before it checks the flag.
Emilia and Serian went at the healing lock from two directions at once.
