Location:Zhū'kethara — The East Gate, then the Storehouse
Date/Time:10 Blazepeak 9943 AZI, Quenchday
Realm:Upper Realm
Dwarf paper has a smell, and Ren knew it before he knew what the letter said.
Mineral, and faintly of smoke, and under both a dryness that no paper made in the Upper Realm ever has, because nothing made in the Upper Realm has ever been kept a thousand feet under a mountain in air that has not moved since the Sundering. Kaelen brought it into the east gatehouse at the third bell, folded once and sealed with a mark Ren had seen exactly twice in his life, and put it on the table in front of him, and did not sit down.
"Two of them brought it," Kaelen said. "Dwarves. They came on foot from the gate, and they will not come in, and they will not leave until somebody tells them it has been read."
"Who is the mark?"
"Thorgrund. The clan signatory."
Ren looked at the seal for a moment longer than a seal needs.
