Allissa
Watching a mountain is slow work, and we got good at it faster than I liked.
Heath took over the watching completely. This was his profession, and it showed. He split the days into watches. He forbade movement along the ridgeline while the light was high. He built us a hide under an overhang of frost-cracked stone where six people could disappear. He kept the field glasses moving and a map growing, and within days the map told us a story. It showed which gates opened and which never did. It showed where the young dragons flew their patrols and how wide. It showed what hour the mountain traded its watches, how long the changing took, and which warden always came late to the north wall because he stopped to eat first. Heath said once, grudgingly, that her wardens kept better discip
