Drakk arrived at Yohan's northern gate on a morning when the forge district was running all six furnaces and the city's permanent smell of hot iron and fresh bread had thickened in the windless early air.
He came with four riders and no advance notice. He had been raised by Brokk, and Brokk's view of formal arrivals was that a warrior who needed ceremony to command an entrance was a warrior compensating for a deficit. Drakk had no Verakh escort, no letter of introduction, only the direction south and the memory of Vor'gath's voice at the clan gathering describing a city that should not exist.
The gate guards were two Fourth Realm orcs and a tauren named Vess who managed the northern gate's visitor log with the intensity that taurens brought to any task involving organized documentation. Vess had a quill ready before the riders had fully stopped.
