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Chapter 550 - Chapter 545: Five Hundred a Quarter

Location:The Temple seat, Upper Realm — and The Road out of Corran

Date/Time:3–9 Emberrise, 9943 AZI

Realm:Upper Realm, then Lower

The quarter closed on the second day of the year, and Sharlin was three hundred and eleven short.

She read the tally twice, which she did not need to do, and then sat with it in front of her while the light moved across the floor of a room that had been built to be looked at rather than worked in.

Five hundred a quarter. Not a target. Not a range. The number had been set for her and it had been raised once, without discussion, in the manner of a thing informing a person of a change in the weather, and there had never at any point been a version of the arrangement in which she got to say what she thought about it.

Three hundred and eleven short, and eleven weeks to make it up.

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"You have been standing there a while," she said.

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