Ask Him Her Mother's Name

They came down the stairs at the fourth minute, and Rhys Marrow put his blade back in the sheath before they saw it, which saved all their lives.

There were four of them in the stairwell and seven in the courtyard and their captain was a man called Vorne with a wide flat face and a scroll in his hand, and he read from it, in the store room above, in the manner of a man who reads a great deal aloud and has stopped hearing it.