Location:Multiple — Confederacy, Guild Garrisons, Northern Settlements, Seven Peaks
Date/Time:TC1856.08.11 – TC1856.08.14
Silas delivered the self-sustaining cores in four days. Not five.
Martha found him asleep at his workbench with his face pressed against a formation schematic, ink on his cheek and a cup of cold tea balanced on a crystal housing. She left the tea. Took the cup. Covered his shoulders with a blanket and went back to bed without waking him, because forty-three years of marriage to a formation master had taught her when to intervene and when to let a man finish what his hands were building.
