Cecil and Fatima's division immediately received their orders to mobilize not long after. They had received word from the city's inhabitants that the border city lords would normally depart for the capital on the first day of the last week of the month which just so happened to be today.
The journey towards the capital would normally take 3-4 days by carriage, so the city lords departed early in order to make it for the meeting that was held on the very last day of the month. Cecil and Fatima's division had only a few soldiers but they were the army's elites. They had already disguised themselves using the Merkruz Principality's soldier uniforms while Lucia had transformed Cecil into their occupied city's city lord.
The transformation wasn't perfect but luckily, Cecil's build was similar
