The rest of the day and the two following had gone awfully quickly while we arranged and cleared the area for the duels to take place. Very few sections of the city had come unscathed by the war, and rebuilding took time. Quite frankly, I would have wanted nothing more than to postpone or even cancel the bloody duel, but with Fuchai in the capital, I would never have a moment of peace.
Thankfully, I was distracted from it all by the arrival of Kumiko and the others, accompanied by Bataar and Odtsetseg. They had all arrived mounted on creatures that I had never seen, which appeared like a crossing between dragons and horses.