Eta hurried up the side streets, hoping she wouldn’t be late. She had found a note and a stack of files on her desk this morning and had gotten caught up reading them. Mikah said that he had looked through Tahir’s office for anything regarding the ink but had come up with nothing. The most extensive research he had was on the quarries. Seeing as Mikah had read through it three times, he lent it to Eta to look through.
She had spent the last hour before dawn reading through the material. There were logs on who worked in the quarries, who entered and when, which sections of Aurastone were excavated and where new deposits had been found. There was also a separate stack detailing specific studies Tahir had done on his own. Most of them were related to how far Aurastone could be taken from the
