Location:Seven Peaks — The Hall; The Lower Drill Yard; The North Gate
Date/Time:TC1857.03.25 – TC1857.04.03
The room was too bright for what happened in it, and Raven noticed that afterward rather than at the time.
Somebody had opened the shutters on the east side because the morning was clear for the first time in a fortnight, and the light came in low and flat across the table and made everything look scrubbed and ordinary — the water jug, the ink, Ostrek's hands, the two Northerners standing rather than sitting because they had been offered chairs and had looked at them the way you look at a thing somebody has left in your way.
Bjorn stood at the end of the table to carry it. Freya had come and had not been asked to, and nobody had said anything about it.
Aren came in behind them and sat down on the bench against the wall with his hands on his knees.
