This chapter. Takes place in the same week as Ch 228. While Sarrek is baking and Tomas is asking questions about foreign gods, Zephyr is running the Eternal Forge's weekly review. This chapter shows what he is doing while mortals are processing Korthane contact.
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The Eternal Forge had been running for 228 years.
Zephyr did not announce himself when he visited. The phenomenon of a god arriving caused the kind of performance-stiffness that ruined his ability to observe naturally. He had learned this in Year 4, when his first appearance in the nascent afterlife had caused Silsk to stand to attention so rigidly that she'd strained a tendon that — technically — she didn't have anymore but that her body remembered having.
So he came quietly, to the Library gallery, and watched.
