Kethavere is behind them, yet Rhyven Alse is still staring down two hundred eleven vehicles, four movement waves, a narrowing western corridor, and the human needs no route can fully capture.
Medicine, trusted adults, and the right moment to stop are the first things a neat convoy plan can cost, and Dr. Olyss Vennor knows that cost by heart.
Emergency pressure first bound the two women together; now that bond has to outlast ordinary disagreement, exhaustion, and the earliest real choices of a relationship neither wants to define for the other.
Rumors outrun facts as the road closes in, and they have to turn a line of vehicles into a community that can keep moving.
Past Mile Zero, remaining together is no longer required of them—it is something they will have to choose.
