Location:Kaelport — a room above a cooperage, and the eastern road
Date/Time:3 Flamefade 9943 AZI, Temperday
Realm:Lower Realm
Chapter 587: The Signal
It came back on the second of Flamefade at about the fourth bell, while she was writing up a shed.
Cangwei put the pen down in the middle of a line and sat absolutely still with her hand flat on the table, because the first time she had felt it she had moved, and had lost it, and had spent five months not being certain she had felt anything at all.
The first of Ashbloom. A road in the hills with nothing on it. A thing like a note held somewhere under the floor of the world, lasting about as long as it takes to put a cup down, and then not there.
It went in the ledger that night in four words, and she had underlined none of them, because a dragon who underlines a thing she felt once on an empty road is a dragon who has decided in advance.
Silver. Queen. Somewhere east. Once.
Five months. And before that, the cloth.
