[YELLOW PALACE'S SHELTER, TEN MINUTES BEFORE THE BREACH]
Erik was waiting inside a room with hundreds of other students; they were all from the Red Palace, meaning that they were able to fight; however, the people who remained were deemed too young, inexperienced, and untrained to join the military effort, so they had been left behind.
Aside from them, there were a couple of older men and women who still worked but had passed the sixty-year-old age and couldn't defend the city as they were deemed unfit to fight. They would have said otherwise, but they knew deep down that they were not as strong as they used to be and that their reflexes had slowed down with age.
