Drakk spent six days in Yohan.
On the third day Skarra took him to the learning hall in the early morning, before the regular session began, so he could see the room without the students in it. She showed him the study tables, the writing materials arranged in organized sets at each position, the tally forms used as primary teaching documents, the section of the wall where Tharuk had begun chalking the law's core provisions in preparation for the permanent carving that would follow the law's finalization.
Drakk stood in the empty hall and looked at the chalk writing for a long time.
"What does it say?" he asked.
Skarra read it to him: the eleven areas of the law, their headers, the key principle beneath each one. She read clearly and without stumbling because she had been reading since she was five and because Tharuk had asked her to read the drafts back to him as a check on whether the text was clear enough for someone reading it for the first time.
