The compound's evening rhythms established themselves by the end of the first week and did not change after that.
Ryuken's lamp was always the last to go out. It burned in the inner sanctum's upper window until well past midnight, the specific quality of light that came through frosted stone suggesting he was working rather than reading, though what working looked like for a Transcendent at this hour was not something Vane had asked.
Kaito's lamp went out around the tenth hour. He was regular about this the way he was regular about everything, the compound running on a schedule that had been his since before Ashe was born and which the arrival of three Academy students had not materially disrupted.
