Location:Seven Peaks — Thorne's room; the north gate
Date/Time:TC1858.03.12
Pine tar and something under it that stung the nose, the stuff Mira boiled in the Medicine Hall and soaked into wool, came into Thorne's room a little before Raven did, and stayed after she sat down.
Raven sat in the chair across the table from him with her hands in her lap. They were still wrapped. The wool was gray and loose and had been changed that morning; it was wet at the fingertips where the salve had come through. Her boots were unlaced. She had walked from the Medicine Hall in them, which Mira had not wanted her to do, and Thorne had heard her on the stair, one step and then a pause and then the next. He had not gone out to help. When she came in she put her shoulder to the door frame for a breath before she let go of it, and he kept his eyes on his blotter until she had.
"I'll write it," she said.
