Location: Hearthwell — the warm-spring room, the long halls, the bunk rooms
Date: 20 Emberwane 9943 AZI, Hammerday
Realm: Lower Realm
The water was hot enough to make her toes curl, and it was green.
Not green like the sea at home, which was gray-green and cold and full of things that bit. Green like a pot of nettles after you've boiled them, with leaves floating in it that the small woman with the funny eyes had cut up on a board that morning while everybody watched. It smelled of the board too, and of something sharp underneath that went up Tilla's nose and made her eyes water before she was even in.
