Location:The Pavilion, and the DDF ground at Kaelport
Date/Time:The five Void Days, 9942 AZI
Realm:Lower Realm
The wyrmlings had worked out that something was happening and had not yet worked out what, which made them unbearable.
"Nobody is doing anything," Tianxin announced, from the middle of the courtyard, at a volume that had never once been calibrated for a courtyard. She was in the small human shape she preferred for arguing in, bronze and copper and red down her back, and she had her arms out. "Not one person. Green is not planting. White is not hitting things. The kitchen is cold. It is the fourth morning."
"Third," said Shenxin.
"Fourth."
"Third." He did not look up from the flat stones he had laid out in a row, in some order that was obvious to him and to nobody else. "There were five, and there are three left after today, which makes today the third. You are counting the evening you could not sleep."
"That was a whole day."
"That was an evening."
