Location:Seven Peaks — the gate; the Hall; the Medicine Hall
Date/Time:TC1858.02.18 – TC1858.02.19
The bell at the north gate rang twice, two hours after dark, the second stroke late and dragging.
Raven heard it from the Hall and put her pen down. Two strokes meant a rider. Riders came at first light or not at all in the second month, because nobody sane rode the last of the mountain road after the sun went off it, and nothing was due. She sat with her palm on the sheet she'd been reading and listened for anything more from the gate.
Nothing more came. What came instead, a long while later, was the sound of the yard door and boots on the stairs, and one set of them was dragging.
