About an hour later, Sunny reached the spot where the convoy was supposed to leave the highway and turn inland, scaling the mountains once again to eventually reach Erebus Field.
Of all the siege capitals in the Antarctic Center, only the first and the largest one — Falcon Scott — was situated near water. Even then, the actual port was a separate and solitary fortress, connected to the city above it by a network of industrial elevators. The rest of the human strongholds were built away from the ocean, on the outskirts of the mountains.
So, the last stretch of the way was going to take the convoy away from the coast… if they continued on the route Sunny had planned for them, of course.
