12 V (?)
Today I received a visit from Hyarn.
I say I rather than we because it was a private visit, paid to my private suite, at a time when Tren was absent. I got the impression that Hyarn knew this, and had deliberately arranged his visit accordingly.
It was also oddly low-key. Considering that he appeared to have made a special point of presenting himself, I assumed that he must have had something particular to say to me — something important. But he knocked politely upon my door, asked after my health when I answered, and accepted my offer of a chair with an air of quiet serenity that hinted at no urgent purpose whatsoever.
‘And how are your endeavours progressing?’ he enquired, with a smile.
‘Moving was an unfortunate necessity,’ I said, with outrageous untruthfulness. ‘It was s
