Snowe received the Horde's response to the council's rejection within the hour of the herald's return, because the herald was efficient and the Threian command chain had learned during the campaign to treat every communication from the orcish side as a thing that required immediate forwarding rather than the measured processing that peacetime military bureaucracy preferred.
He read the summary twice. Set it down on the map table. Sat with the particular quality of stillness that characterized him when a situation had moved past the parameters he had been operating within and required the construction of entirely new ones.
