Seven weeks in Caldren had changed the shape of Sera's days into something she recognized as sustainable.
This was not a small thing. Sustainable was not a word she would have applied to her life in Ironveil, where everything had been organized around the management of other people's comfort and the suppression of her own inconvenient existence. Sustainable meant she was eating enough and sleeping enough and working enough and had people around her who required things of her that she was capable of giving, which was different from having people around her who required things she had to manufacture from reserves she did not have.
She had Wren every three weeks, the appointments now including not just physical monitoring but an increasing amount of conversation about what the Silver Blood
