Kael and Vor'gath arrived at Yohan's northern gate on an afternoon when the forge district was running a full production day and the wall-mount installation crew was finishing the third anchor point on the north face's second vector position.
They came with eight highland riders and no letter of introduction, which was consistent with Kael's approach to everything. The thing itself was the communication. Preamble was a form of asking permission that he had never found useful, because the answer to preamble was always either yes, in which case you had wasted time asking, or no, in which case you had wasted time being denied before doing it anyway.
Vess at the gate log wrote down the names and affiliations with the thoroughness that Vess brought to every visitor, a thoroughness that reflected a personality suited to the specific administrative virtue of not distinguishing between important and unimportant arrivals when recording them.
