Location:The clan floor, Mid Realm
Date/Time:1 Blazepeak 9943 AZI, Kindleday
Realm:Mid Realm
Thorgrund had been holding a letter since the fifth of Emberrise and had not been idle about it, which is a distinction most people cannot see and every dwarf in that hall could.
It sat in the third drawer under a pattern-book he had not opened in years, and he had taken it out on seven separate occasions and read it and put it back, and on five of those occasions he had afterward gone and done something else about it that was not writing a reply.
His clan-sister's hand. Two pages, and the first page was about the school at Vor Hakkun and the intake and a boy from the eastern holdings who had a good eye and no patience, and Hilgrund had spent a full page on that before she came to it, which was not evasion. It was ordering. You put the living work first.
Then the second page.
