The sky was clear, the wind gentle, and the afternoon sun was scorchingly hot, drying the dust-covered wilderness. Armies in dark green, bearing the flag of the Black Wolf, hastened along the undulating mountains, rushing toward the mouth of the valley to the northwest, forty miles away. Columns of dust from their march rose to the sky, still visibly distinct even from tens of miles away. Scouts of the Guajili Canine Descendants saw all this from atop the mountains and relayed the urgent news into the valley, further stirring panic in Red Fox Valley.