Location:The column road north · Hearthwell, in the Ironspine · The Pavilion — the workshop
Date/Time:25 Flamefade 9943 AZI, Kindleday, the second bell after midnight to first light
Realm:Lower Realm
Wheels, on frozen ruts, in the dark, a long way off.
Takara heard them before he smelled anything, which was a reversal of the usual order and which he noted for his report. Iron tires on ruts gone hard as stone with the cold, a creak of ash boards, one horse, walking. Half a day short of the gate at the head of the column road, by Canirr's map, which Canirr had made him memorize before he left and then made him recite.
There, said Suki, beside him. She was not beside him. She was somewhere in the black of the hedge-bank to his left, and he only knew she was there because she wished him to.
Confirmed.
