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Kenneth's POV

They were coming. Today. It was today they were coming and I was so excited. The men had sent other letters and had attached the date of their arrival to it.

I was elated that they had all decided to do that. They must have known what a worrying mess I was even without anyone telling them. Good. I smiled, reminding myself why they were worthy of being my soldiers.

I checked the calendar again for the umpteenth time, confirming to myself that it was truly today that they were here. They had told me that they had resolved their issues and would be around today. Though they hadn't used the birds that I had sent and theirs that they had groomed and I didn't recognize, I couldn't fail to recognize the handwriting and style of writing of my soldiers. I hadn't painstakingly trained them for years to not know information as little as that about them.

I checked the sun, hating that it was soon going down and no longer as bright as it had been hours ago. I sighed, feeling worried