Ruggah was sitting at the corner table with his back to the wall, and Coin stood by the door with her hood still up. There was a subtle tension in the air that I could feel.
"We leave today," Ruggah said. "This morning, if we can get the beasts fed."
I arched one of my brows. "I take it the maps were expensive."
"The maps were cheap." He pushed a rolled bundle across the table with two fingers. "It is the… other news that cost."
I sat down, unrolled the bundle and looked at the top sheet. It was three hides joined together, inked in a careful hand, showing this corner of the continent, with a legend in the corner listing the years each section had been surveyed. The newest section was forty years old. Most of it was older.
