Those of the Nighthawks that had not slipped into buildings or into the sewers that ran under the city, followed the Arena fighters, melding into the crowd of mismatched individuals. With no uniform and no commonality signifying them, it was easy for the Nighthawks to slip into the fringes.
The fighters dismissed them as enthusiastic civilians, while the civilians who trailed after the mass of fighters marching toward the dock dismissed them as fighters, and so the Nighthawks melded seamlessly with the Arena fighters.
While the fighters marched toward the docks, the Imperial forces had begun to form some semblance of a resistance.
The harbor was a 'U' shape, the wreckage of the towers where the Ursten forces had landed at the tip of the 'U' shape. Now, Jeremiah had decided to hold the Ursten forces at the choke point where each side of the 'U' joined the center, to minimize the numerical advantage of the Ursten forces.
