Reborn Cave Queen of the End Times novel Chapter 149

Chapter 149 Good News

After the inecting wrapped up, Leonel went back and announced the good news.

The men in the hilltop shelter practically erupted.

Autumn laughed right along with them.

Once a man’s belly was full and his back was warm, his thoughts turned to settling down.

Leonel had read the room perfectly.

Pulling young women from the shelter to strengthen his own ranks, and in doing so making his people even more loyal to him.

Every side of this trade walked away loaded, and the central shelter got to walk away with nothing but the wound.

At that very moment, the leadership at the central shelter was in a state of barely contained fury.

They couldn’t make sense of it no matter how they turned it over. Their ships were gone. Their two frigates were gone. Not a trace of either.

Karthmoor’s people played dumb across the board and even had the nerve to turn the question back on them, asking exactly what the central shelter thought it was doing, blocking Karthmoor vessels on open water.

The central shelter’s upper ranks turned on each other not long after, reopening old arguments about how power should be divided, and between that and their own infighting. Karthmoor’s people stopped being a priority for the moment.

Beckett and Scott both moved fast, arriving with their offers and their goodwill and completing the exchange with Leonel in short order.

Leonel sent a group of people back with Beckett to Aurora Base specifically to train in battlefield trauma care.

Autumn had been the one to put the idea in his head.

In a world like this, you could run into any kind of nightmare situation.

Sometimes the right surgical tools weren’t available, and a doctor trained in ideal conditions suddenly had no idea how to function. Inexperience in the field meant hesitation, and hesitation cost lives.

Leonel went and had a direct conversation with his own doctors after that, and what he heard opened his eyes wide.

Military field medicine was blunt, fast, and effective in ways that civilian medicine simply wasn’t designed to be. The priority was keeping the patient alive, and everything else was a secondary concern.

He sent people over immediately.

Scon also delivered exactly what he’d promised, arriving with more than a hundred young, unattached Women from the shelter, ready to meet Leonel’s crew.

Leonel brought David in specifically to handle the cooking, because this required his absolute best, and how many of those women stayed behind depended entirely on what came out of the kitchen.

David was deep in the middle of something warm and sweet with Kayla at the time, the two of them i that delicious, half-spoken space just before something becomes official, and nobody leans harder into the idea of romance than someone who’s already half-dissolved in it themselves.

When Leonel asked him to cook for the matchmaking event, David said yes before the question was een fully out, and swore on his own hands that he’d win those women over one stomach at a time.

On the day of the event, the rich, intoxicating scent of food saturated every corner of the hilltop shelter

Autumn ended up working through two drumsticks, a box of fried skewers, a plate of pork, and roasted meat before the craving finally quieted down.

And that was Autumn. The others were in even worse shape.

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