The shift on the battlefield had been subtle.
Now it was not.
The front line had pushed forward by thirty meters over the last twenty minutes — not in a planned, coordinated advance, but in the organic way that a line moved when the pressure against it had reduced enough that holding ground became less important than reclaiming it.
Students who had been braced against the horde's density were now leaning into the space that density was vacating, and the space kept appearing as fast as they moved into it.
The horde was losing the arithmetic.
