Snowe regrouped at the northern junction with the efficiency of a man who had been planning his next move since the moment he gave the order to withdraw.
The junction was where three roads met on flat, open ground ten miles northeast of the engagement field, its geography unremarkable except for a waystation that the provincial courier network maintained and a stone well that could serve a thousand men without running dry. It was not a defensive position. It was a meeting point, and the meeting Snowe intended was between his retreating force and the reinforcements that had been converging on the province for days.
They arrived within the hour. The Baron of Lettra's two thousand soldiers came down the eastern road in column, their armor bearing the green-and-silver livery of the baronial forces that had garrisoned the eastern frontier since the Tekarr approaches were established.
