The written law was eight days old when it was used for the first time.
The case began at two in the morning, which was when most cases involving young children began.
A woman named Urak came to the healing chambers carrying her son Kurak, three years old, wrapped in a blanket, with a fever that had climbed past the threshold where Urak had decided she could no longer manage it with the measures she knew. She had noticed the fever at midnight and watched it for two hours, trying the cooling cloths and the ginger tea that Rakh'ash'tha's public health notices recommended for early-stage fever management. At two o'clock the child was still climbing.
