Location:Seven Peaks — The Hall; The East Wall; The Lower Yard
Date/Time:TC1857.07.06 – TC1857.07.07
The cold came up off the Hall floor through boot leather no matter how many people were standing on it, and Raven had stopped noticing that years ago and noticed it again on the third morning because she had been awake since the second hour and had run out of things to do with her hands.
The room smelled of three governments' breakfasts and somebody's boot polish.
They were on the publication clause. They had been on the publication clause since the previous afternoon and would have been on it until evening, because the Federation's second delegate had a series of objections that were each individually reasonable and that together added up to a request that nobody ever have to publish anything they had not already decided to publish, and because Speaker Kael-Ren had worked that out inside five minutes and had spent the morning so far saying so in progressively shorter sentences.
