Chapter 47: Working Orders

Chapter 47: Working Orders

The handwritten texts lay on the desk, stacked at a slight slope. They had been handled repeatedly over several evenings, added to, then set aside when something interrupted the work. Beorn had the ledger open in front of him and continued moving the charcoal in steady strokes.

Aestrith occupied the couch with her legs folded under her, her attention on the ceiling as if she had chosen not to engage with anything else in the room.

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