Location:Stell's Ford, on the Kessig water
Date/Time:22 Blazepeak 9943 AZI, Quenchday
Realm:Lower Realm
Hu Bing's rider came in at the second bell, and Ruifen had her company moving at the third.
That was the number she cared about. Not the tide, which she had not seen yet and could not do anything about, and not the village, which she had never been to. The hour. Warning to movement, and one hour was the best anybody had ever managed on that ground and she had been trying to get it under one since the founding and had not managed it yet, and the reason was boots.
Eleven of her people had been out of boots that morning. Eleven. It had taken twenty minutes to find them boots.
Ruifen wrote 60 on her slate and under it 20 = boots and put it in her coat and went to find a horse.
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A tide is not a migration, and it is not a hunt.
