Chapter 711 - Chapter 710

Aldrath attacked on the twenty-second day because the accumulated degradation of the ghost fires and the drum wall and the harvest delay and the bridge ambush and the singing advances and the Throat Team operations and the farrier destruction and everything else the Horde had done in three weeks had produced the specific condition that Aldrath's professional instinct recognized as the threshold: the point where waiting cost more than acting, regardless of the acting's risk.