Location:Wild Confederacy — Settlement Windbreak; Jessa's roof; Jessa's lane
Date/Time:TC1858.03.22 – TC1858.03.23
Breath on the back of his hand, warm and wet, and then teeth on his cuff.
Galen opened his eyes. A goat stood over him on the sod with one forefoot on his sleeve, working at the wool. It was a brown nanny with a torn ear and a bell that had lost its clapper. When he lifted his arm, she stepped back and stared at him, chewing.
"How'd you get up here?" Galen asked her.
She didn't answer him. He sat up and found out for himself. At the end of the lane, where Jessa's house met the next one, somebody had stacked firewood against the wall in the autumn, and the stack came most of the way to the eave. There were marks in the frost on every split log. Two more goats were on the next roof down already, standing on the ridge like they'd been put there to look at.
