The council that changed Yohan's future was held on a morning when the forge district's smoke rose straight into a windless sky and the training grounds' drills produced the cadence that the city's daily rhythm had absorbed into the background sound that the city's inhabitants no longer consciously registered.
Khao'khen convened the council not in the war chamber but in the administrative hall that Sakh'arran's governance systems occupied. The location was the location that the council's purpose required: not a war council. A building council. The first building council that the Horde's post-campaign phase had convened for the purpose that the post-campaign phase's specific requirements demanded.
