Location:Zhū'kethara — the Kael'thoren Fortress: the waking hall below, the east room, the east wall
Date/Time:13 Frostforge 9943 AZI, KindledayRealm:Upper Realm
Sleepers came up coughing. Every one of them did it, whatever layer of the mountain they'd come out of and however long they'd lain there, and Ren had heard it so many times that it had come to sound like the first useful thing a body does. The long room under the fortress was full of it that morning. Coughing, and the scrape of bench legs as Maelith's people went from table to table, and somebody at the far end being sick into a basin with great thoroughness and no embarrassment at all, and under it the steady tick of the braziers along the wall, which had been lit before dawn and fed every hour since.
