Trench Lines

Every night, the Marquis Burton returned to the safe rooms with his family, so Princess Alexis and Dominic took over his suite on the top floor of the keep, where they would be close to the reports, and in a position to see most of the city.

It wasn't the greatest accommodation, but with a bit of alteration, the room now contained two beds, and the guards were staying right across the hall when they were not on duty.

It might have been considered unconventional, but Alexis had deemed it inefficient to have them going up and down five flights of stairs every day, when their job here was to protect someone who didn't leave the tower.

Over the course of the next week, the airships reported three more mechanized convoys coming for Burton, none of which ever made it to them.