Hajin reached the eastern wall while Flint standards continued appearing beyond every ridge facing the town.
Aria counted each formed company through Divine Eye and separated supply drivers from armed personnel before adding another marker.
Uriel's copied movement order warned of more than a thousand, although the road carried enough banners to hide errors inside its distance.
Juna stood beside Hajin with her ears angled toward the returning vanguard files approaching from the southern pass.
Their armor still carried ash-white marks from Dreth's Zone, making all seventy-two recognizable among the fresh companies gathering outside.
No soldier from the destroyed forward shoulder returned with them, while twenty-three disabled survivors remained outside the marching ranks.
The six household retainers captured behind Uriel sat inside the quarry yard and carried no field assignment or vanguard stitch.
