House Ferency men were seen constructing internal defenses for the city, supported by siege engineers from House Sterker of all houses. Apparently, they are setting up messenger posts with runners to very quickly pass news and organize defenders, and the cities river bridges are also being reinforced.
They are being supported by House Atianna as well, and others have started joining the effort, which was started after apparently some of the nobles had had enough of the discussions and simply got to work.
The names of Rogen Ferency and Askaari Sterker were dropped as to the ones who got the ball rolling. Regardless of who really started the efforts, it seems to have lit a fire under the other houses who are all contributing to the efforts.