C25 Chapter 25

To say that Orest woke early would be to say that he had slept. He was awake all night. For a few stretches of a few minutes each, he was able to close his eyes and drift into something resembling a light nap, but whenever his eyes closed, his mind became loud. He heard metal scrape against metal like cooking pots being dropped on rocks.

The sharper grating sound of swords against swords