Chapter 20: What Hector Teaches

Chapter 20: What Hector Teaches

Hector came to his room before dawn.

Three knocks. The specific knock — Lysander had learned it the way you learned anything repeated often enough, without deciding to. Hector’s knock had a particular quality: unhurried, evenly spaced, the knock of a man who was not in a hurry but was also not going to knock again.

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