Wing Shear

The dragons have changed their route. Lenvar cannot wait for certainty.

Broadwings are two hundred miles west of their expected migration corridor. Ahead lie Lenvars eastern approaches, crowded streets and people who have no reason to abandon their homes on the strength of an uncertain warning.

Forecaster Sivra Pendren has spent her career getting the evidence right. Now she must decide how much is enough to ask a city to move. Her husband, transport liaison Dasken Roat, can arrange departures only if the trains, boats and receiving shelters can actually take the people she warns.

As sightings challenge the recorded route, their colleagues search for an explanation in the animals behaviour and the ground beneath them. But Lenvar cannot suspend its working day without cost. Families must choose what to carry and what to leave, while those responsible for their safety face questions no forecast can settle in time.

The Broadwings are wild animals. No rider can turn them aside. Sivras team must act on incomplete knowledge, and answer for what their decisions demand of other people.