Location: Eastern Trade Road
Date/Time: Day 793-795 (Since Nexus Contract) - 29 Voidmarch - 1 Ashwhisper, 9938 AZI
Realm: Lower Realm
The caravan stretched along the trade road like a segmented beast—twelve wagons in various states of repair, ranging from gilded merchant coaches to weather-beaten supply carts held together by hope and cheap nails. Jayde counted them from the treeline where her group waited, cataloguing everything with the automatic precision of decades of intelligence work.
Twelve wagons. Three mounted guards visible, two more walking perimeter. Thirty-seven civilians, including drivers. Mixed cargo—textiles from the southern valleys based on wrapping style, spices from the coastal regions given the sealed containers, and at least four crates of cultivation materials, if the protective formations are any indication.
