Orders delivered.

The Messenger approached the cave and looking around to make sure no one was around entered and found Katherine sitting with two of her aides looking at charts. "Admiral Katherine I have come from Queen Arerto with a message for you" She then hands the message to Katherine and steps back standing and watching. Katherine broke the seal and read the message which was in two parts. "Hello my sweet Katherine how I miss your touch and cannot wait until we are reunited in Talia." That was the personal message that gave Katherine a smile then she read the situation report and the attached orders. "Have some rest and food then go back to the Queen and tell her we will be in a position in four days and ready to attack the harbour and take the palace." The messenger nodded then headed to a table laden with food and drink and replenished her belly and packed some food for the trip back then left.

Katherine looked at her aides "Well the Queen has persuaded the army that Chasin sent to defect to her cause so they will not be a problem to our mission. We are as per the prior orders to take control of the harbour and proceed to the palace and place all the nobles under arrest until Arerto arrives." Katherine let them read the operational message but kept the personal message to herself as she took some food and drink and after a while, they headed out of the cave to the secret bay and boarded their ships. Katherine looked at her ships and the transports as they were loaded with the **** **** which numbered five hundred of Thadens best warriors all men. Unlike the Amazons, other armies kept their women well behind to support them with cooking and healing. Katherine went to her cabin to study the harbour layout and reflected on her upcoming voyage which would take four days. Arerto would have to move her army two days earlier so that they both attacked at the same time.

In Talia, Lady Cressida was sitting talking to the Queen." Your ally Pragar is playing her part your majesty and preventing Thaden from assisting the enemy army. Your army has taken the ravine and presently is marching towards the river Junice to cross and attack Thaden in his arms rear areas." Chasin thanked Cressida and w watched as she bowed then left the throne room. Cressida knew of the attacks to come in the city so she left to head back to her own lands. Soon with Arerto and Chasin out of the way she would sweep in and take the throne then she could turn her attention to Pragar and take that as well. Cressida may have been an expert in manipulation but when it came to tactics and strategy she knew nothing and would have realised it would have been better to get Pragar first then Talia. She sat in her carriage smiling dreaming of the things to come and her new rule over a lot of lands.