The team is respectfully but firmly escorted into a large stone seating chamber by two armed guards dressed in camouflage and carrying very advanced-looking rifles. Seated at a massive wooden table is Valeria, flanked by two more soldiers carrying rifles and standing at attention.

“Your presence here speaks volumes, treacherous people of Union and Caldera. I suspect this is another ploy for time while your forces attack mine? It will not work this time. I have dispatched troops across the city. Whatever your little plan is, it has failed tonight.”

It looks like this is off to a smashing start.