The prayer ended, Winters buttoned up his pendant box, gently pressed it against his forehead, and carefully placed it back around his neck.
Miles away in Sea Blue City, Anna Navarre woke up from a dream with tears unexpectedly sliding down the corner of her eyes.
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By noon, the Herders' third onslaught had been repelled. But they didn't retreat far, setting up camp just two hundred meters away to regroup.
More than a dozen wagons lay within thirty steps of the western wall of the camp, riddled with bullet holes and arrows.
The anti-cavalry stakes on the west side of the camp had been yanked chaotically out of the ground by Herd Cavalry with lassos.
The Herders even dragged away the stakes they had pulled out, denying the Paratu People any chance to replant them.
The central wooden hut of the camp was turned into a medical station, where seriously wounded Paratu People were brought in for treatment, while the lightly wounded were tended to at their posts.