The winter edition of the Healer's Journal arrived at Frostfall Citadel's administrative offices on a Monday morning in January.
Elowen was in the middle of a case review meeting with Dalla when the copy was brought to the office by a young council aide who had been instructed to deliver it immediately upon arrival. The aide set it on the desk with the careful reverence of someone who understood, without being told the full context, that this particular document meant something.
Elowen finished what she was saying to Dalla before picking it up.
She turned to the relevant section with the unhurried attention of someone who does not need to rush toward something they have already earned.
The paper was there.
Her name first. Seraphine's name second. The full title. The abstract, which Se
