Silas did not come out for the rest of the morning.
He also did not come out at midday, when Due brought the next round of dispatches up from the courier station and laid them on the table in the order Alistair preferred. Following that, he did not come out when Elara, who had been sharpening her blade at the bench by the door, got up and set it down without finishing.
The door of his room stayed closed.
Due read his second dispatch of the day across from Alistair, frowning. The dispatch was no better than the first, since the Sunborne in the southern provinces had moved again, in a direction nobody could justify on a map.
Eventually, two minor factions in the central plains had requested emergency consultations with the nearest Echelon office, and had not received any responses, which the Record was noting in the polite administrative voice that meant the responses were not coming.
"He is going to wait us out, you know," said Due, finally.
