Dravon's POV
Her letter arrives with the morning bundle, three days after the corridor.
I know it is hers before Zane sets it down. The neutral routes have a particular weight to them now, or I have developed a particular sensitivity to them, and I have stopped examining which of those two things is true because the examination keeps arriving at an answer I am not prepared to file. Plain parchment. Plain seal. I take it and I do not open it in front of Zane, who notices that I do not open it in front of him and says nothing, which is its own kind of noticing.
I wait until he has gone.
Then I read it.
The first time, I read it for content. This is the trained reading, the one that has served me across three centuries of correspondence, the one that extracts what a document is for and d
