Location:Kaelport — The Water Side, Below the Long Shed
Date/Time:6 Flamefade 9943 AZI, Restday, before light
Realm:Lower Realm
White.
The far bank came out of the dark in flat detail for two heartbeats, every reed and every stone of it, as if somebody had cut it out of paper and stood it up on the water. Jayde saw it at the edge of everything and did not look at it.
She was looking at her own hands.
They had been going forward. Everything in her had been going forward — hip and heel and the Core open to the floor and the whole of Seal One coming up out of it in a line, and the line already drawn through the middle of a dragon — and the blanket came into it a half breath from the end, and she knew whose blanket it was before she knew she knew.
There is no small version. There is no stopping it either. What there is, if you are fast enough and do not care what it costs, is up.
She put it up.
