Location:Kaelport — The Arsenal Yard and the Tiller's Row Bathhouse
Date/Time:2 Blazepeak 9943 AZI, Hammerday
Realm:Lower Realm
Four hundred and six.
Feng Lian said it out loud, walking the length of the rack, because he says everything out loud and had given up apologizing for it in the second year, and because four hundred and six was going to be the number he carried into the meeting and he wanted it in his mouth before anybody else put a different one there.
Twenty-four when he took the brief. Four hundred and six now.
It is the only figure on this continent that has gone the right way that fast and it was still not nine hundred, and he had said nine hundred by spring in Ashwhisper, in a room with Li Shenwei in it, and had said it as a target rather than a promise, and had known even while he was saying it that a target said out loud in front of Shenwei becomes a promise by Emberrise and a failure by Blazepeak, and here was Blazepeak.
