Location:The Pavilion — the workshop · Kaelport — the long shed's back room · the Gate — the east ridge
Date/Time:19 Frostforge 9943 AZI, Kindleday
Realm:Lower Realm
Canirr's map was still cold when Jayde put her hand flat on it, cold right through, the slate holding the night it had been carried in. It lay on the workshop bench between a coil of wire and Eden's second-best stylus, and Canirr herself lay under the bench with her chin on her forepaws and her pale eyes half shut, taking up most of the floor and all of the warmth from the brazier.
"Two nights," Eden said, her hair half out of its tie and a cup of something going cold at her elbow. "She walked it both nights and came back with the frost still on her. I took the surface pass off the handheld, and she told me where it was wrong, and it was wrong in four places, and I've drawn her four places and not the handheld's." She didn't sound pleased about it. "It's her map."
Jayde read it.
