The western territories were three days' travel from Valdenmere by standard carriage, or one day if you paid for expedited transport through the Guild's priority deployment system.
Amaron paid for expedited transport.
He arrived in the western regional capital — a city called Thornhearth that served as the Guild's operational hub for the territories — at the fourteenth hour on day two hundred and sixty. His deployment orders directed him to report to Senior Coordinator Draveth, who was managing the cascading rift investigation from the regional Guild hall.
Draveth was a man in his fifties with the weathered appearance of someone who'd spent decades doing field work and had only recently transitioned to coordination roles. He looked at Amaron's credentials, then at Amaron himself, and raised an eyebrow.
