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The pair of them saddled up the on the dragon, and were off.

Villentre shoved off from the building with one powerful flap of it's wings, and dropped into the open air. The wind buffeted their clothing and tore sound from their ears. The flight was short, Lyrenn hustling to make it back to the tower in time.

Soon the Spire was in front of them and the dragon banked, circling it up and and up and up, before wrapping it's serpentine body around the town's side. Lyrenn reached out and pressed a hand to the stone work, which peeled aside like a folding fan, revealing a large chamber: Villentre's nest. Lyrenn hopped off, landing with a thump in the deep gravel that covered the chamber's floor. Villentre liked to burrow or scratch himself on it.

"Let's head to my father's office." Lyrenn said to Barrin. "I've no doubt he'll want to talk with us."

That's certainly cryptic.  Erylla thought. "Who is speaking here?" She wondered aloud.

A servant appeared down the corridor and stopped as she came near the lounge Erylla and Grayle occupied, but patiently waited for the lesson to finish.

Back in his office, Saelor had his maps spread out, and had ordered a servant to go and fetch him some figurines. The planning stage of his assault on Rhoyne would begin now.

He had his own dragons and forces, House Aekison's choosen dragon and rider, Kostion's three cohorts of slave auxiliaries, and the various legionnaires pledged by other houses.

The auxiliaries would bring archers, skirmishers, and cavalry, about a thousand and eight hundred men.

The heavy infantry pledged by the other, lesser houses totalled to about three centuries, bringing another three hundred men, half a cohort.

It was little over half a legion, as had been said on the Senate floor.

Saelor himself controlled a large number of House Praetorians he could call to arms, about half a cohort's worth--men from all over with differing backgrounds, specialities, and experiences--that he kept paid, employed, and armored at all times. There was also the garrison at Glaermaen, situated in the side of one of the Fourteen Flames, where most of Valyria's steel production occured. He could only draw sparingly from there, as the site was too vulnerable to leave undefended. Finally, in his lands surrounding Qohor, he could draw on the large number of citizens that had settled there to serve in his legion, and also pull auxiliaries from Qohor itself. Although the city wanted nothing to do with Valyrian politics or religion, it's leaders would recognize the threat an expanding Rhoyne posed.

In all, he could probably cobble together a full legion's worth of men. A good fourth of them would be untrained or old, but the rest would be veterans or trained elites, such as the Kostion slave soldiers.

It would just be a matter of waiting for Aekison's rider to arrive, as well as Lyrenn and Barrin, so that they could plan the deployment of their forces.