The hour took more than half.
Kael returned to the central hall at the seventh mark after half an hour with Tharn beside him and the expression that confirmed calculation produced when the confirmation was the confirmation that the calculation had predicted and the prediction's accuracy was the accuracy that the calculator's mind had processed with the specific certainty that accurate prediction produced.
"The warriors accept," Kael said. "The terms are accepted. The withdrawal begins at dawn."
The dawn was eleven hours away. The fighting had consumed the night and the morning and the afternoon and the negotiation had consumed the evening and the dawn that the withdrawal's commencement required was the dawn of the following day, the twenty-six-hour mark from the Horde's entry through the postern gate at the capital's southeastern wall.
"Dawn," Khao'khen confirmed.
"There are conditions," Kael said.
"Conditions."
