Batu POV
The watch fires on Suvar's wall had been burning through the night along the walkway and higher on the watchtower platforms. By the hour before dawn, when Torghul's formation came into position around the city's southern side, they were still burning.
The garrison inside had known since the earthworks fell what the morning would bring. They had used the night to make what use of it they could.
The formation moved into the encirclement without signal fire to guide it, working from the positions Torghul's relay had mapped the previous afternoon from the earthworks northern walkway.
Suvar's gate was visible from the south as a dark gap in the wall, with the nearest watch fire casting its light against the gate's wood. The gate was sealed with a heavy bar across its center, and the joints where the gate met the sill had been freshly pitched.
Subutai came alongside Batu in the pre-dawn dark.
He looked toward the gate, then back at Batu.
