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Moroch glanced to the lesser berap between the two ramparts was narrow and steep-sided, and led directly to a corner bastion on the city’s wall, where ballistae and onels coe cadre, three lesser sorcerors, were positioned with a suard on the raular indentation of High Fort’s walls The old drainage course wound a path down froe of hills a thousand paces to the north Three additional ramparts ran parallel to the Dry Gully, on which were positioned the forward eleest of these ramparts also held a stone-walled fort, and it was there that the brigade coe cadre

Additional rah rort, and on these waited reserve ele ele the city’s walls and bastions was High Fort’s own garrison

To Moroch’s thinking, this imminent battle would be decisive The treachery of the Edur that had been revealed at Trate would not be Repeated here, not with eleven sorcerors present a the Letherii forces

‘Wraiths!’

The shout came from one of the queen’s officers, and Moroch Nevath returned his attention to the distant treeline

The deer had lifted their heads, were staring fixedly at the forest edge A moment later they bolted once ers’ road, dohich they bounded until lost in thefield – pasture in peaceful ti out fro up into a thick h line, three hundred paces long and scores deep Behind theht of a e behind the line of wraiths Finally, to either side, appeared warriors, Tiste Edur to the right of the wedge, and a horde of ses on the far left

‘Who are they?’ Prince Quillas asked ‘Those on the far flank – they are not Edur’

The queen shrugged ‘Soe a thousand, no more than that, and poorly armed and armoured’

‘Fodder,’ Moroch said ‘The Edur have learned much from us, it see north of the lesser ber forces were Tiste Edur

‘The wraiths will charge first,’ Moroch predicted, ‘with the denal flags frohted their own enemy ranks’

‘Were you the Edur commander,’ Quillas said, ‘ould you do? The attack cannot be as straightforward as it now seems, can it?’