Chapter 11 · free to read
Three weeks. Eleven courses of stone. The court had a word for it now — the drying — and had started saying it the way people say a season rather than an emergency.
Nine keepers. Nine dry seasons. If the descent was a ritual, it was a fate. If it was a trigger condition, it was a mechanism — and a mechanism can be taken apart by somebody sufficiently annoying.
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