The responses from the other Archs came back over three days. The Verakh relay carried them from the northern stations, east from the coastal installation, down through the mountain passes from the highland-adjacent Archs, with the speed that the network's design permitted when riders were given priority on the waystation horses.
Aliyah read each response as it arrived and handed it to Darak, who added it to the wall chart. The chart had begun as a sheet of parchment and was now three sheets pinned together, each Arch's entry growing as data arrived.
