Sable's second packet came up the back side of the field at dawn.
It was thicker than the first, and the boy who carried it had clearly run, breathing hard when he set the bundle on the table. Due walked him back to the kitchen, gave him bread, and sent him out again.
That was a thing Due did, and Alistair did not comment on it.
He took the packet from the table and cut the seal himself.
The pages inside were in Sable's hand, tight and slanted, the way she had always written. The first was a cover note, two lines, which read: 'I had this prepared for someone. I am sending it to you instead. Do not write back about it.'
She had not signed it, and the five pages after the cover were profiles.
He laid them out in order across the table. Elara came up on one side, Silas on the other, and Due remained standing where he had been.
The first page read across the top:
'HALCYRA VOHN. THE EDICT.'
