Location:Kaelport — the school road, Owl House and Badger House; the long shed
Date/Time:16 Frostforge 9943 AZI, Quenchday → 17 Frostforge, Grindday
Realm:Lower Realm
Owl House had its shutters down for the first time since the break began, and somebody had swept the step. Badger House across the yard had done the same, less well. They were long, low buildings of new timber on stone footings, roofed in slate that had not yet weathered to the color of the town's, with a yard of trodden clay between them and a pump in the middle of it that somebody had wrapped in sacking against the frost. Eight more had been framed behind them for next year and stood open to the weather, all ribs, like boats on a slip. Jayde stood between them on the school road with her hands in the pockets of her corps coat and watched the bend where the road came in from the east, and at a little past noon on the sixteenth of Frostforge the column came round it.
