Vor'gath departed Yohan on the twenty-third day after the Horde's return with the understanding that twenty-three days of observation had produced in the shaman whose perception encompassed both the physical and the spiritual dimensions of what the observation encompassed. The understanding was not the understanding of simple facts catalogued and counted. The understanding was the understanding of a people revealed: their discipline, their grief, their ambition, and the quiet ferocity with which they had transformed ruin into foundation.
