Location:Seven Peaks — The North Gate Yard; The Hall; The Medicine Hall
Date/Time:TC1858.02.08 – TC1858.02.09
The rail of the north gate was cold enough to take skin, and Raven had her bare hand on it anyway, because she'd come out without gloves and hadn't noticed until the bell went.
Two strokes. Clean, both of them.
Whoever it was had covered real distance and still had time in hand at the end of it. She'd stood in this yard enough times to know what that meant, and she'd come down from the Hall at a walk, and she was still standing at the rail with her hand going numb when the rider came through the gate, and she saw who it was.
Sera Vahn came in with one Stonefall man riding behind her. She held the reins in her left hand. Her right arm lay across her body inside her coat as though she'd forgotten she had it, and her face was the gray of somebody who had slept outdoors for most of two weeks and eaten whatever was going.
