Location:Loam Hollow, and the Suhe fork
Date/Time:11 Infernorest 9943 AZI, Grindday
Realm:Lower Realm
The kitchen still smelled of it in the morning, green and bitter under the bread, and the trough stood by the door scrubbed out again, with a dark line round the inside that no amount of sand was going to shift.
Meifen of First Company had been home two nights and had not yet opened the box. After breakfast she brought it out.
There had been no point before. There was now.
Two things in it. A dozen spirit crystals, each the size of a thumb joint, pale and faintly warm, packed in sawdust. And a stoppered jar of pills from Daishan's own furnace at Kaelport, high grade, each one wrapped in paper with a number written on it.
