Trot'thar reached the Lettra barony on the second day at mid-morning, his column moving through the estate's outer boundary walls at a pace that neither hurried nor lingered.
The barony's home estate was a complex of stone buildings spread across a hillside above the agricultural lowlands that produced the wheat and root crops that were the Lettra family's primary source of income.
The main house was substantial, built in the heavy provincial style that prioritized permanence over elegance, its thick walls and deep-set windows speaking of a structure designed to endure the passing of generations rather than to impress the visitors of any single one.
The outbuildings, storehouses, granaries, a mill whose waterwheel turned in the stream that ran behind the northern structures, the longhouses for the permanent farm workers, were organized in the pattern that reflected the accumulated agricultural knowledge of a family that had managed this land for a hundred and twenty years.
