Location: The Pavilion — the sanctuary; the rise above the pond
Date: 30 Emberwane 9943 AZI, Restday, evening
Realm: Lower Realm
The sanctuary had a wind in the evenings, and it went for the ledger first.
It came up off the pond and over the willow and found the rise the way water finds a crack, and every evening it lifted the corner of whatever page Cangwei had open and tried to turn it for her. Cangwei had stopped weighting the book with stones. There were no loose stones on top of the rise, only the rise itself, gray and flat and big enough for one, and she had worked out early that the only thing she carried that would stay where she put it was her left hand.
So she lifted it out of the sling with her right and laid it across the page.
