Location:Seven Peaks — West Yard; Command Center; Thorne's Office
Date/Time:TC1857.02.06 – TC1857.02.11
The west yard smelled of green pine and wet grit, which was not a combination Seven Peaks had ever produced before.
Raven came into it at midmorning with the cold of the flight still in her coat, and stopped, because somebody had built a thing in the middle of her yard that had not been there when she left.
A column. Chest high, faced with pine boards on all sides, packed with material that had been screened and rescreened and laid in courses. Fine at the bottom. Coarser going up. A brazier at either end for the men working and a tarpaulin lashed over half of it against the weather.
Silas was standing beside it in a coat that had been slept in.
"You've been quick," Raven said.
"I've been awake." He did not look at her. "That's a different thing, and it produces worse work."
"How long?"
