Yohan's walls appeared on the fourteenth day's horizon.
The walls were the walls that the city's construction had produced: stone, twelve feet high, the height that the walls' defensive purpose required and that the city's builders' capability had achieved during the years that the city's construction had occupied. The walls enclosed the city that the walls protected. The city that the walls protected was the city that Khao'khen had built from nothing and that the building's years had converted from nothing to the thing that the walls enclosed.
The walls' appearance on the horizon produced the sound that the walls' appearance produced in seven thousand warriors who had been marching toward the walls for fourteen days and who had been fighting for the walls' preservation for months before the fourteen days' march began.
