CHAPTER 14
Work, that was the only thing I should think about. Work needed to be my life, I decided when I regained my senses after the encounter with the king. And as I stood by the wall of materials, I was committed to that decision. I removed everything from the wall and laid all the jars and boxes on the round carpet in the middle of the hall. I brought new parchment to re-label everything.
Burk was out all morning, but when he came back he fussed around me.
“Em, what are you doing, child?” he said, standing at the other side of the room, since there was no room for him to walk.
“I’m organizing,” I mumbled as I scribbled on parchment and stuck it to one of the jars.
“But the wall was already organized. We had a system,” Burk said, cooing.
“It’s why you hired me! To make things be
