C263 NO ONE TOLD US WHAT TO DO

Aria was concerned that she had overlooked something significant when she woke up before dawn.

It was too quiet in the village.

Not peaceful.

There's a sense of quiet in a room following an altercation.

She went outside.

The sky was slowly filling with cold, pale blue air. There were six chimneys, but only two released smoke. By this hour, there would typically be noise—carts, buckets