at Harald; he nodded, spoke.
"Stephen, what can you raise fast?"
"Messengers out today? Two-fifty, maybe three hundred, five days from now. Five, six more days for the rest. We'd best assemble on my southern border, plains west of the road. Plenty of grass."
"What about Brand?"
"If he's home when the bird gets there, a hundred in five days—farther to come. Maybe more. Four hundred more in another week or so."
" 'Nora?"
"Three tataves in camp, one in the hills east. Do we pull in our scouts, Stephen's, from the border?"
"No. Four tataves, my people, Brand and Stephen's. Leave James's folk in Eston