He hasn't decided which. Neither have I, honestly , extraordinary or dead, and the gap between them feels narrower the more I learn about what I actually am.
The Academy archive is on the second floor, which nobody uses before seven in the morning except me.
I've been coming here for a week in the hour after dawn training , it's warm, it's quiet, and it has the kind of deliberate organisation that settles something in my brain the same way keeping records does. The archive keeper is an elderly man named Orin who has decided, based on evidence I haven't identified, that I'm trustworthy, and who therefore points me toward useful sections without being asked and leaves me alone once I'm in them. These are his two most important qualities.
I'm looking for Phoenix-Wolf.
Not systematically ,
