Location:Seven Peaks — Lower Yard, Medicine Hall Isolation Annex, Residential Quarter
Date/Time:TC1856.10.25 – TC1856.10.29
The carts came in through the lower yard at the eleventh hour, and Lin Yue smelled them from the terrace above before she saw them.
Vinegar and hot metal. Four days on the road under sacking and pitch cloth, and the smell had got into the wood and would not be coming out of it — she gave the carts three days before somebody quietly decided they were no longer food carts.
"Don't unload," she called down. "Not into the Hall. Not anywhere near the Hall."
The quartermaster looked up at her with the flat expression of a man who had spent the whole journey thinking about exactly this problem.
"Where, then?"
"The old refining annex on the second terrace. Stone floor, stone benches, one door, no drains." She was already going down the steps. "Nothing in that building connects to anything. That matters more than the light does."
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