The distant scraping comes again, but it is no beast. It grows into a hard, rhythmic grind that shakes the breach tunnel wall by wall.
From the dark bend, the scouts rush back into the wardlight, faces pale and dust-streaked, their breaths sharp with alarm.
The Scout Leader
Drills. Massive stone-boring drills. The legion's vanguard is cutting straight for us.
The words land heavier than the tremor. The pale eggs, once thought hidden by chance, seem to answer with a faint, uneasy shimmer under the mist.
Bracken
They have found the line. The nest is no longer secret.
The tunnel walls begin to pulse with each grinding bite from deeper underground, and every guardian turns toward the dark bend as if it has learned their names.
✓ Quest Accepted
Fortify the sanctuary against the legion's drills
✓ Quest Accepted
Evacuate the eggs from the compromised breach tunnel