The highland warriors arrived at the Tekarr Arch at the end of the first day of travel from the highland boundary, moving faster than Kael had projected because the unit's commander had pushed the pace on the descent and the warriors had not objected to being pushed. Forty warriors, with their own supply contingent, a healer, and two people who had completed Aliyah's monitoring training at the Arch during an earlier visit.
Oshrak watched them arrive from the facility's eastern wall.
They were not the largest warriors. The highland clans ran to a size that was substantial but not orcish, and the Yurakk that Oshrak commanded were uniformly larger. The highland warriors moved differently than orcs moved: a ground-level economy of motion that came from growing up in terrain where every footstep had to be placed precisely or you fell. They arrived at the facility's gate with the organized quietness of people who had learned that noise in mountain terrain was an operational liability.
