Jane was still inside the main building of the sub domain, getting the inheritance from her master.
Neil was about to go check when the notification arrived.
It came through his communication device, formal and sealed with the mark of a settlement warden.
He stopped walking and opened it.
The sender was Mantis.slement sat closer to the phantom planset's incursion paths than most.
The message was direct.
A wave was building.
Not the ordinary incursion activity that the settlements managed as a matter of routine, but something organised and large, the kind of buildup that a single settlement's lords could not adequately address without support from outside.
Mantis was requesting that strong lords from neighboring settlements volunteer to assist in holding the wave when it arrived.
The estimated timing was within the week.
Neil read it through twice.
