The Threians left eight dead at the build site when the twenty-one-minute engagement ended.
The count had been established before the last exchange of blows because highland warriors counted opponents with the same automatic precision they applied to their own people. Sarra gave Drakk the figure when he arrived at the palisade: eight dead, four on the western approach side of the breach, four within the perimeter. The surviving Threian soldiers had withdrawn north in order, not in rout. They had taken their wounded with them.
That detail told Drakk more about the force's quality than the attack itself had.
He went to the breach.
