Location:Seven Peaks — the north gate yard; Thorne's room; the Hall
Date/Time:TC1858.03.21
Oil and cold leather, and under that, the stable smell coming out of the door behind it.
Kairos smelled it before he was through the north gate passage, because the wind came down the mountain at first light and brought everything in the yard up the passage to meet him. Somebody was working tack. He had not slept, which at his present altitude was no longer an event worth remarking on, and his knees had told him about every stair between the terrace and the yard, and he had come down them anyway because the alternative was lying on a pallet listening to Raven not sleep on the next one.
