Silvain read both timelines at the northern fire.

He read them the way he read everything that required careful attention, completely, without interrupting himself to comment, holding the full picture before responding to any part of it. Marina sat across from him with the morning fire between them and watched his face and did not say anything.

He finished Sera's timeline first.

Then he read the version she had prepared for him.

He looked at both documents side by side for a moment.

She formatted mine differently, he said.

Yes, Marina said.

Fewer diagrams, he said. More sequential narrative structure.

Yes, Marina said.

She has been paying attention to how...