Location:A shelf of bare rock on the northern margin of the Scorch, then above
Date/Time:3 Ashbloom 9943 AZI, Temperday, before dawn
Realm:Lower Realm
The deck plates flexed, once, and everybody in that cabin who was not Jayde turned around.
The Pavilion's entrance opened onto the aft of the cargo space because that is where the height is, and Ashborn came through it the way Ashborn comes through anything, which is without hurrying and without any evidence of effort, and folded down onto the deck with the blade-arms tucked and the great flat head low.
Nobody had told the dragons.
"Why is Ashborn coming?" said Hulong.
It was not hostile, and it was not a small question. It was the only rule on that ground that had never once been bent in two years. Nothing about this ship was made safer by a charling being on it, and Hulong had spent four years watching Jayde refuse to spend that rule on anything, including the two occasions when spending it would have been worth it.
