Location:Denvahr's Holding, four days East of Zhū'kethara
Date/Time:20 Sparkfall 9943 AZI, Hammerday
Realm:Upper Realm
The spoil heap had been growing for nine days, and it smelled of nothing.
That was the part Ren could not stop coming back to. Ordinary ground has an opinion about being opened. Turn a field over, and it gives you something — wet mineral, root, the sourness where a thing has been rotting quietly at two feet and did not expect company. This came up out of the shaft in baskets, dry and pale and fine as flour, and a man could stand with his face in a basket of it and get nothing at all, and the diggers had stopped noticing by the second day.
He noticed every time.
