Location:Zhū'kethara — The Eastern Quarter
Date/Time:8 Sparkfall 9943 AZI, Hammerday, Late Morning
Realm:Upper Realm
The forge in the yard had been cold for longer than anybody had kept count of, and somebody had lit it.
Ren heard it before he came round the wall — the particular uneven roar of a fire being worked by a man who had not worked one in a long time and was refusing to admit it, and under that the flat ring of a hammer landing on something that did not deserve it. The sound carried down two streets. Half the quarter had found reasons to be at that end of it.
Ilvaren stopped at the corner without being told and stayed there.
Ren went in alone.
