Location:Dalgate, on the eastern road
Date/Time:5 Ashbloom 9943 AZI, Grindday
Realm:Lower Realm
Twenty-three days, and nobody had asked after her.
Cangwei had built the whole of her arithmetic around that one word — until — because a scrivener in a cellar in another world had been honest with her for four ingots, and the honesty had been the thing worth paying for. It holds until somebody asks after you. Not if. She had understood that at the time as a warning and had been walking around inside it since, the way you walk around inside a house you have not finished paying for.
Twenty-three days.
It was a long time to be nobody, and she had not expected the shape of it.
