The safe house will only be for a short while, Lord Tanner had told me in Dumley’s drawing room. An earth Charmer is quite a valuable thing, Miss Clarke. One that many would covet. We wouldn’t want these rebels getting their hands on you, now, would we? Best to err on the side of caution and wait for all the dust to settle.
I wondered if Domelius Becker, the last surviving Alchemist in the trench, would be waiting in this “safe house” with me, both of us now the only one of our medium. How long would it take for the “dust to settle”? It seemed to me that dust was a growing storm.
The city was riddled with the effects of the strikes. The refectory meals had grown sparser as farmers left fields untended and didn’t return. Deliveries weren’t made. The coal supply was being rationed carefull
