The Yohan First Horde departed the Threian capital on the fourteenth day through the southern gate at dawn.
The departure was the departure that Sakh'arran's operational planning had structured across the fourteen days' preparation: orderly, sequential, the formations moving through the gate at the intervals that the gate's width and the southern road's capacity and the column's composition combined to determine. The departure was not the departure that haste produced. The departure was the departure that the Horde's specific character produced when the character's expression was the expression that the departure's audience, the capital's remaining civilians, Colonel Gresham's administrative personnel, the kingdom's soldiers who had arrived over the preceding days to assume the security that the Horde's withdrawal created, observed and that the expression's content communicated.
