The dwarven response arrived at Yohan on the fifteenth day after the Horde's return.
The response was not delivered by a dwarven envoy. The response was delivered by a Verakh scout whose intelligence network's mountain surveillance had intercepted the communication that the response's source had dispatched through the channels that the source's operational network employed. The communication was a letter from Thane Borin Ironbeard to the highland clans' surviving leadership, and the letter's content was the content that the Verakh network's interception capability had extracted from the communication's route and that the network's translation capability had converted from the dwarven script to the orcish and Threian languages that the letter's content's analysis required.
The letter's content was the content that Sakh'arran presented to Khao'khen at the command post with the specific weight that the content's strategic implications demanded.
