On the other side of the walls (part 2)

It didn't take all that long for all the officers gathered in the general's tent to read through it, regardless of what angle they were looking at this torn piece of paper at. 

Reading through the tone didn't mean figuring out how they were to comment on it, especially when even the commanding general himself didn't bother to utter a single word about it. 

"You are here to advise," Yrven, the man boasting the highest military rank below the emperor himself within the entirety of the empire, addressed his officers. "So what do you think you are all doing, staying silent?!"

Yrven's voice lacked the usual edge, the underlying fury that all of the present has long since gotten used to. And once again, just like when the man suddenly calmed down, this difference was the very source of their fear. 

Fear, that soon turned into realization that things weren't going anywhere near to what they had all expected to have reported by the end of today.