The war council chamber was built for twenty and had thirty in it.
Maps on the central table — Jaar's borders rendered in careful ink, every neighboring territory named and measured, the distances between settlements and passes and defensible positions noted in the margins by someone who had done this work seriously and recently. The borders themselves were marked in two colors. Black for where they had been six months ago. Red for where they were now.
There was considerably more red than there had been six months ago.
