7
Liadan
She gave him until the morning to come to her, and then she went to find him herself.
Not out of impatience — she had patience in abundance, had cultivated it specifically to balance the parts of her nature that moved fast when everything else around her was still deciding. She went to find him because she had spent the night building the argument and by dawn it was complete and she saw no advantage in carrying it around inside her any longer when it would work better said aloud to the person it was intended for.
He was in the great hall with the territorial maps already unrolled, Aodh beside him, the two of them in the shorthand conversation of people who had been running a problem together long enough that they communicated mostly through gesture and the particular quality o
