The channel took until mid-morning to establish.I sat through the preparation without useful occupation, which is its own particular difficulty. There are things I am better at than I was two years ago: delegation, patience with ambiguity, and the recognition that not every problem benefits from my direct intervention. Sitting in a chair while Aldric made fine adjustments to instruments whose function I only partially understood, doing nothing, is not one of them.Kael brought coffee at some point. He set it beside me without comment and sat down on the low bench near the door, where he stayed for the next hour, requiring nothing from me. The coffee was excellent. I drank it and watched Aldric work and tried not to think about what three weeks of increasing signal might mean.You should eat something, my wolf said.I ignored her.I'm noting that for the record.She has developed over the past year a dry quality that I find both useful and a
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