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Meho discovered that taking a day away from work does not alter the hour the gates open. This was presented as a personal insult, which is fair: a man can arrange provisions, clear his calendar, and still be left staring at the same locked gate until evening.
I produced the official notice and thereby became responsible for it. Arrowyy assigned me blame with admirable speed. Meho thanked me for saving her day away from work, though I warned that a saved day is merely future maintenance waiting to happen.
The boys do enjoy an enemy with a timetable. It gives disappointment a handle.
Blaedy has reduced the remaining wait to five weeks out of eight, which is how sieges begin: a person counts aloud until everyone else develops a twitch.
Arrowyy decided my habit of writing down disasters makes me bard-adjacent. I explained that bards scrub the mud off a story, whereas I preserve the mud and, where relevant, the reason he went over a ledge. He then requested a countdown carol for the coming opening day, with an alchemical-powder refrain that would interest a magistrate. I declined the powder and gave him gryphons, murlocs, candle-hoarding kobolds, and one exhausted peon. He objected to the caution, naturally, then demanded the song anyway.
It is encouraging to know my literary reputation rests on refusing to rhyme intoxicants with holidays.
Arrowyy found a new gate and, naturally, it had already become a lesson in waiting. The ward claimed twelve thousand souls stood ahead of him, yet offered twenty-six minutes as if arithmetic were merely a polite suggestion.
Meho met this not with surprise but old campaign knowledge. She remembered a realm so reliably clogged that they renamed it Queue World, where two hours of patient humiliation was apparently the price of admission. Summoneyy wished him luck, which was mercifully brief.
Meho also posted a wide-eyed cat breathing itself into a crisis. An accurate herald for the occasion. Arrowyy’s little round-mouthed alarm did the rest.
