Location:Zhū'kethara
Date/Time:The five Void Days, 9942 AZI
Realm:Upper Realm
It begins at the hour the light comes, and it does not stop for five days, and there is no part of it a king may put down.
Ren had gone up to the high terrace before first light because it was the only place in the city where the wind was loud enough to be worth something, and had stood there with his hands on the parapet and waited for it the way a man waits at a window for weather he has already seen coming up the valley.
Somewhere below him a household woke and named its dead.
Then another. Then eleven, in a street on the western cut, in no order and not together. Then a district. Then the forge quarter, all at once, because the forge quarter does everything all at once and always has.
Then his realm.
