Sudden communication
[YELLOW PALACE'S SHELTER, TEN MINUTES BEFORE THE BREACH]
Erik was waiting inside the shelter with hundreds of other people, most of them students; they were all from the Red Palace, meaning they were able to fight.
The only problem was the people there were deemed too young, inexperienced, and untrained to join the military effort, so they had been left behind.
Aside from them, there were a couple of older men and women who still worked but had passed the sixty-year-old age or people who couldn't defend the city as they were deemed unfit to fight.
They would have said otherwise, but they knew deep down that they were not as strong as they used to be and that their reflexes had slowed down with age.
Many people let out sighs of relief when they saw it was Erik and a bunch of other students who entered the shelter.