The Horde reached the capital's eastern approach at the midnight hour.
The capital's walls were visible in the moonlight, the forty-foot stone construction whose western and northern sections bore the damage that one hundred and twenty-one thundermakers' sustained bombardment had produced. The breach at the northwestern corner was visible as the gap in the wall's profile, the gap that the barbarian assault force had poured through eight days ago and that the barbarian occupation's engineering had not repaired because the repair's urgency was the urgency that an occupying force assigned to the repair of the breach that the occupying force had created, which was the urgency of zero.
