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He did not know how he got through the evening.
The perimeter report. The supply inventory Muircheartach brought him. The three messages from Brehon representatives in the eastern territories that had been waiting for response since the assault and could not wait any longer. He moved through all of it with the surface competence of someone who had been managing large amounts of logistical complexity for a very long time and did not require his full attention to be present in order to do it adequately.
His full attention was in the Coill Dorcha.
It had not left. He had walked out of the forest and into the courtyard and through the rest of the day with his body in the hall and his mind standing at that threshold — her face turned up toward his in the filtered light, the Nasc r
