Chapter 28: What Ampelos Built

Chapter 28: What Ampelos Built

He went to Ampelos in the morning.

Not the early morning — he had learned that Ampelos’s working hours had a specific rhythm, and the time before the second hour was when he processed the previous day’s correspondence, which meant he was available but distracted. The time after the second hour was when he was fully present. Lysander had observed this across several months of peripheral contact and had filed it the way he filed everything.

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