Khao'khen called the senior council together not at the council room but at the remembrance wall.
The wall was in the city's northern plaza, the carved stone that Tharuk had spent three months working before his departure for the highlands. It held names: the orcish dead from the campaign, the highland dead whose names Kael had provided, the fourteen highland names added when Drakk visited. Tharuk had carved the law's core provisions into the entrance lintel. The wall was a working document as well as a memorial. It was the most honest thing Yohan had built.
They gathered at the wall in the morning light: Sakh'arran, Arka'garr, Zul'jinn, Grogus, Drenn'ak, and Dhug'mhar, who had come from the Rhakaddon training ground still wearing his training coat and the frost-scarred pattern on his neck that Aliyah's work had left on him. He had stopped covering the scarring two months ago. He wore it the way a warrior wore any mark that had come from a significant encounter.
