"Open the gates!!" The kai announced.
Sagiri turned around to face the position of the gate. His squad did the same. There was a pause. Along one before the gate of Thazir began to open. When the massive structure started to roll upwards, that's when Sagiri began to understand why the long pause was necessary.
The entire structure rolled slowly upward into the rocky mountain itself with a sound so heavy it shook the ground, and the canyon trembled. The gate was forged from layered black stone plates reinforced with veins of dull southern steel. Ancient markings marred the gate. Massive teeth hidden within the canyon walls pulled the weight upward while thick chains, each link larger than a man like Salka's torso, shifted and groaned deep inside the stone.
This was the main gate. The smaller gate beside it could not by any means be used by a man of Sagiri's status or a kai.
