The first time we saw the orange sun was at sunset when it peaked beneath the clouds. We pushed on to reach the fort before darkness fell in full force. It was dark all day, but tonight there would be no light from stars or moons.
We stood in front of the closed gates to the mountain top fort.
"Open," Reyas shouted. She peered upwards and grumbled a few unladylike words. The gate remained shut. Reyas glared at it for another minute and there was no sound from within.
I looked at the wall, it was tall and slick. It was made by expert climbers to be extremely hard to climb, if not impossible. But that was for a certain power class because a skilled qi practitioner could jump high enough to grab the ramparts as the beastmen had done not long ago.