Kael's PovWe reached the capital on the sixth day.Lira met us at the gate and she walked beside me as we came through and she said quietly: "They are still there.""In the archive," I said."In the archive reading room," she said. "They arrived the morning after I sent the bird. They came in through the front entrance in full daylight, signed the visitor record with their own name, went to the reading room, and have been sitting there since. They have not tried to leave. They have not asked for anything. They have just been sitting there reading.""How long," I said."Six days," she said."They have been sitting in my archive reading room for six days," I said."Yes," she said. "My people have checked on them twice daily. They are always in the same chair. Different books each time. They eat what the archive staff bring them and they say thank you and they go back to reading."I looked at her."They are not afraid," I said."Not visibly," she said. "Not even slightly."I went to the
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