Kael's PovI went to Aldred before dawn.I had not slept much and I did not think he had either. He was awake when I arrived at his tent and he was sitting at the small table inside with a lantern lit and his hands flat on the surface in front of him and he was not doing anything. Just sitting. Just breathing. Just holding whatever he was holding in the particular careful way he had been holding it his entire life.He looked up when I came in."Sit down," he said. "I expected you earlier.""I needed to think first," I said."Good habit," he said.I sat across from him and neither of us said anything for a moment and the lantern between us was steady and the camp outside was quiet."Tell me more," I said. "Last night you told me what it is. Tell me what it has been. Forty years of it. I want to understand what that actually looks like from inside."He looked at the surface of the table."It is very still," he said. "That is the first thing. Most things inside a person are moving. Thoug
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