They went down at the fourth hour of the morning, three of them, through a subsidence wall the city had bricked up nine years earlier.
The ground above it is the abandoned north-east quarter, condemned on a report Luna pulled at the eleventh hour of the previous night. Blackforge has held that corridor since the mill came down, on a grant of land nobody else in Orison wanted at any price.
A district is condemned by the people who know why, then forgotten by everybody else.
That is the line Luna wrote at the head of the page before she sent them under it. She had spent the night with the survey dates rather than with the subsidence report, which is the second page of that document.
Vell took the brick out himself with a mason's chisel held in his left hand.
