Location:Obsidian Academy — The Lower Hall
Date/Time:2 Ashwhisper, 9942 AZI — Continuous
Realm:Lower Realm
Nobody moved for a while after that, and the folded copies stayed open on the table in front of people who had stopped reading them.
Shenwei looked up.
"How solid is the seventy?" he asked.
"Solid enough to build on. Not solid enough to bet a life on, and I am building for sooner." She had the answer ready and had had it for weeks. "It is a band and not a date. You have just read where it comes from and you have read what it came down through. Treat it the way you would treat a bridge somebody built ten thousand years ago, and nobody has inspected since — you can cross it. You do not park a column on it."
"So it could be fifty."
"It could be fifty. It could be ninety. If it is ninety I will have wasted nothing, because everything I am building is worth building anyway, and that is not an accident."
"And the number you do trust," Meifen said.
