(Night Kingdom. Karnstein Castle. Some point after Liliana left for England.)
...
The scarf had started as a scarf.
Alicia had been clear about this when she began it. A scarf. Normal length. Normal width. Something to do with her hands when she needed something to do with her hands and the alternative was thinking too hard about where Valerian was and what was happening and whether the information reaching the Night Kingdom was accurate or four hours old.
That had been three weeks ago.
The scarf was now longer than the hallway outside Alicia's workroom.
She knew this because she had measured it against the hallway. Not on purpose. She had run out of room on the workroom floor and opened the door without thinking and kept going.
The hallway measurement had been...informative.
She closed the door and went back to knitting.
...
Iris found her there.
