Chapter 351: The News Breaks
It broke in the west, where Kai could not see it.
Three weeks after the account went into the Guild's permanent archive, a bulletin came up the road from Varen's Hold. The Director read it twice and then sent a clerk to find Kai, which meant it mattered, because the Director did not usually send for anyone.
Kai found him in the records-tower room with the bulletin flat on the table under his hand, the way he held things he did not yet have a category for.
"The water," the Director said. "It started with the water."
