Chapter 624: A Thousand Roads That Cannot Meet
By the second day the library staff had stopped asking whether he needed anything and started simply leaving it.
Food arrived twice a day on a lacquered tray, and by the third day the trays had improved considerably. On the fourth, one of them came with a small covered dish of candied plum that nobody had mentioned and that was very good.
He noticed the delivery duty had become competitive around the same time.
The first few volunteers had been junior disciples who set the tray down, bowed to the floor, and fled. Now they arrived in twos and threes, and lingered by the shelf ends, and conducted extremely quiet conversations at a distance of about fifteen paces before leaving.
Leon caught fragments over the days, because he was not deaf and they were not as quiet as they believed.
—the bells, all nine, my senior sister was on the west terrace and she saw the pillar—
—younger than half the outer court, they say—
