Location:Zhū'kethara — the Integration Settlement, and the country north of it
Date/Time:14–15 Emberrise, 9943 AZI
Realm:Upper Realm
They sent for Lyria at the fourth hour, which told her most of what she needed to know before anybody said a word.
Nobody sends for the Prophetess about a missing child. You send for the watch, and the watch walks the settlement, and by the second hour somebody has found the child asleep under a cart. A woman is only fetched out of her bed at the fourth hour when the settlement has already done all of that twice and is beginning to be frightened of itself.
"How long?"
"Since the middle of the afternoon." The caregiver had been running and had stopped being able to organize her face. "They were in the yard at the noon bell. They were not in the yard at the second, and everybody thought they were with somebody else, and by the time we had finished each of us thinking that, it was dark."
"Which two?"
The woman looked at her.
