War at the Gates - Part 7

"We'll gather the troops by the walls, and we'll command from above," Fritzer said, finding his seriousness again quickly enough. "We will not allow a single gap for them to get through. Not even the smallest drop of water."

Hendrick nodded slowly. "Indeed. We will play this as carefully as we can."

Chapter 14 – The Red Dragon

They could have marched upon the Black Mountains themselves and victory would have seemed like a less intimidating prospect.

From a distance, it was the vastness of the Red Emerson army that they had to contend with. It was enough beyond comprehension, that a man could almost lie to himself, and protest that, in being unable to define it, it surely was not quite as bad as it looked.