Chapter 52
As far as Rain was concerned, the report very well may have been the most important thing in the whole room, the whole tower for that matter. It bore unfortunate news, as most important papers did, and had set the course for his plans that night.
He stood away from the desk; as far away as he might have while still appearing to not be avoiding it. He had no one but himself to make appearances for. He was alone in the room.
Rain leaned over the tables and the maps that they held. The display reminded him of the too common sight one might find in a field commander’s strategy tent, an accurate display of forces arrayed in the field and predictions about their movements marked out in chalk on the papers. He had to remind himself that was not what he was looking at, not a map for
