The Verakh report reached Khao'khen at the second hour after midnight, carried by a rider who had pushed his warg at the kind of sustained pace that the animal could maintain for hours but that left it blowing and trembling at the end of it.
Six thousand soldiers moving south from Snowe's junction position. The direction confirmed at three separate observation points by three separate scouts, each report matching the others in the specific way that accurate intelligence matched when the observers were positioned to see the same movement from different angles.
Their pace was assessed as forced march, not standard advance, the kind of pace that commanders ordered when the time required to reach the objective was the critical variable rather than the condition in which the force arrived.
Their destination was calculable by any commander who looked at the map and identified the single geographic feature whose fortification changed the campaign irreversibly.
