The Chamber met on the Chancery’s count, because Tallow said it must, and because a count that was wrong in the enemy’s book was still a count that the enemy would act upon.
He set the sitting for the evening candle, when the smoke was at its thickest along the rafters and the shutters were closed on the ring. He laid the minute-book open at the foot of the table and wrote the hour and the cause. Chamber sitting on the count of the Chancery, as reported by the boy Hob, in the Kitchen, at the third sitting of the siege. He read it back to himself and disliked the word reported, which made the boy sound like a witness and not like a child, and then he decided that the boy had been a witness, and let the word stand.
The Hands came in one at a time, and sat, and did not speak. Harrow had the cord across his knees. Ysra had her warning-book under her palm and her eyes on the door. Korrin stood at the window with his back to the room and his arms folded and the shutter’s crack lighting one side of his face. Gaunt had brought his spade and laid it across the bench beside him, which was a thing he did when he intended to object to something and did not yet know what. Pell came from the Kitchen with flour on her hands and took the Mouth. Sella sat at the…
