Red Horizon Leg 8

Leg 8 — LHSM → LOWG Hévíz–Balaton, Hungary → Graz, Austria

A strategic withdrawal flight transporting surviving intelligence assets into Austrian coordination zones.

Red Horizon

The title spread quietly among pilots first.

Red Horizon.

Because every eastern sunrise now arrived through smoke.

Flying northwest toward Austria, you crossed above endless highways clogged with military traffic, evacuations, and supply convoys moving simultaneously in opposite directions.

The geography of Europe itself suddenly felt fragile.

Borders remained printed on maps below.

But the conflict ignored them completely.

Near the Austrian frontier, fighter patrols escorted your aircraft briefly through unstable airspace before vanishing back eastward toward the war.

Toward the red horizon.