The routine of the days had become something predictable without becoming repetitive. Saran was at the enrollment documents before the horse lines had run their morning feed, catching two more settler families that Khulgen's deputy had missed in the previous week's count.
Khulgen was at the supply tallies with Mahmud's new cross-reference format in use, each tributary submission across two ledger rows instead of one.
The relay drills on the open ground north of Sarai each morning, and the sound of them reached the workshop district the same way the depot sounds did, as evidence in the air that the doctrine was working.
The friction with Orda's formation was exactly as Torghul had said it would. In each combined exercise the White Horde's relay riders moved through the new signal accurately and a beat behind Torghul's riders, who had been doing it for months.
