He had never put all four of them in the same room before.
He noticed this when they were all seated — Arsini with her tablets, Antiphus with the list he had been building for a week, Miros with the patrol maps he carried as a matter of habit, Lysander at the head of the table with nothing in his hands because the thing he was bringing to this meeting was not a document.
Four people who had each been building something. Each from a different direction. Each with a different picture of what existed outside the walls.
Let's see what we have when we put the pictures together, he thought.
He said: "Hector has given us fourteen days. Ten for the count, four for the framework. I want the framework done in three."
Miros said: "Why three."
"Because the count will take ten and the count will change the framework and I want a draft framework before the count is complete so we can revise rather than start from nothing."
