UNIT Evacuation Truck

The UNIT vehicle sits idling on wet gravel outside the Gore Crow Hotel, its canvas-covered rear section framed by flickering orange emergency lights that cut through the murky twilight. Bodies move between shadows—Warmsly’s boots crunch in loose stones as he argues with Pat, Elizabeth’s torch flickers across the truck’s dented flank where soldiers load last-minute supplies, and the air carries the sharp tang of diesel exhaust cut by the metallic smell of tension from the heated exchange. The truck’s suspension groans under shifting cargo, its headlights bleeding across the hotel’s rain-slicked windows and the war memorial across the street where Morgaine’s forces are closing in.