The Verakh rider returned from Ashwell in forty-one hours.
The rider's warg collapsed at the capital's southern gate with the specific exhaustion that a relay system's final mount produced when the final mount's reserves had been expended across the last thirty-league segment without the rest interval that the segment's standard operating protocol prescribed. The warg's flanks heaved. The rider dismounted with the compound case in his hands and the expression that forty-one hours of continuous riding produced in a warrior whose assignment's urgency had converted the riding from the transport that riding normally represented into the sustained physical ordeal that the urgency's timeline demanded.
Rakh'ash'tha received the case at the palace's eastern wing.
