Location:Wild Confederacy — Settlement Windbreak; The Screening Shed; The Pavilion
Date/Time:TC1858.01.07 – TC1858.01.09
The sand glass was cold enough to hurt when Mei picked it up that morning, and she held it anyway, in both hands, until the glass warmed and the sand inside it stopped being a thing she could feel through her gloves.
She had done that every morning since the eighth month. Nobody had told her to. It was the one thing she did in the shed that was not on the sheet, and she had decided at some point in the autumn that one thing not on the sheet was allowed, as long as she knew which one it was.
The rider came in while she was still holding it.
She knew the rider. He had carried for Seven Peaks since before she was a disciple, and he did not come to the shed; he went to the pavilion, to Speaker Kael-Ren, and then to Naida. He had never once come to her.
