the entrance into the city of the column of pandions , cyrinics , genidians and alciones the previous night had not gone unnoticed , and the torchlit bronze portal leading into the vast court before the basilica was guarded by a hundred and fifty red-tunicked church soldiers under the command of that same captain who , at makova 's orders , had attempted to prevent the departure of sparhawk and his companions from the pandion chapterhouse on their journey to borrata .