The Baron of Frost arrived on the morning of the withdrawal's second day.
Valden's griffon descended through the capital's morning air with the descent angle that the wing membrane's wound permitted: steeper than the standard approach, the damaged membrane's reduced lift capacity requiring the compensatory angle that maintained the controlled descent rather than the uncontrolled descent that the wound's full impairment would have produced. The griffon's wingbeats were asymmetric, the left wing's membrane producing the full lift that the undamaged membrane provided while the right wing's membrane produced the reduced lift that the wound's tissue disruption permitted, the asymmetry producing the wobble that Sakh'arran's observers had reported during the ammunition-destruction mission two days earlier.
