The cleaning up began as soon as the sun rose above the cliff.
Edward directed. This was an undeniable fact, because in the whole family only he was patient enough to look at a mess as high as a person's head without wanting to set it on fire.
Finnick and Chloe provided the pulling force. Vines threaded through each gap, wrapped around the book piles, and carried them out to the yard in the exact order Edward instructed. Sane was in charge of heavy objects: removing a few rotten boards blocking the door, carrying the stone footstool, and dragging out from under the bed an earthenware jar that even the old man himself did not remember what it contained.
(Inside was a dried mouse corpse. The old man said it was a "specimen".)
Kaelen plucked pampas grass to make a broom, covered his mouth and nose, sweeping with one hand and hugging books with the other, busily running in and out.
