Colonel Gresham arrived at the capital on the ninth day with the supply wagons and the expression that the arrival's context produced in an officer whose professionalism was the professionalism that the context's complexity required.
The supply train was fourteen wagons. The wagons carried the provisions that Sakh'arran's resupply request had specified: grain, dried meat, the preserved vegetables that the Horde's supply system maintained at the quantities that field operations demanded, and the medical supplies that Rakh'ash'tha's treatment of the remaining patients required. The wagons also carried the specific items that the joint administration's implementation demanded: administrative documents, communication equipment, and the Threian kingdom's interim governance charter that General Snowe had dispatched with the colonel for the joint authority's formalization.
