Neral was awake.
He was sitting up with the document already in his hands, which meant he had been reading it when Kai came through the camp. He looked at Kai and then at the ground below them.
"You found one," he said.
Not a question. He had known they would find one here. He had known since he found the document.
"Sit down," he said. "I'll tell you what it is."
He had found the document in Kael's Seat. Not in Arveth's restricted holdings—in the general archive, in the oldest physical storage section, misfiled under geological survey records from three hundred years ago. Someone had shelved it in the wrong place either because they hadn't read it carefully or because they had read it and not known what to do with what it said. It had been sitting there for at least a century.
