The march south crossed the Threian heartland at the pace that seven thousand warriors and three hundred wagons sustained across terrain that the warriors had fought through in the opposite direction months before.
The terrain was different in the southward direction. Not different in geography. The hills were the same hills. The rivers were the same rivers. The farmland that the Horde's northward advance had crossed was the farmland that the Horde's southward departure now crossed. The difference was not the terrain. The difference was what the terrain's inhabitants did when the Horde passed.
