The monitoring took two days to establish.
Oryn and Peth worked in a room at the top of the castle’s eastern tower that Caelan had never used for anything, which made it available for the specific quiet that signal monitoring required. Peth rebuilt the detection instrument from memory with the tools Thessaly provided and the materials Caelan’s steward, now a significantly more reliable figure since Eris’s departure, sourced from the Ashwood Court.
I spent those two days doing what I could from Vaelthorn.
Two more secondary fault lines, not the Ashwood Court ones, lines in the northern range that were ready to close naturally, healed in the usual way, the standing in the column of light and giving the full weight of what I was to the process, the specific cost of it that I had named to t
