Chapter 66: What the Envoy Sees

The second day was a tour.

Standard in diplomatic visits of this kind — the formal reception established the relationship, the tour established the facts. The facts being: what Troy was, how large, how organized, how defended, how supplied. All of this was information Pelonides would carry back in his own head, filtered through his own assessment, shaped by what he had been told to look for before he left Mycenae.

Lysander had thought about this extensively.

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