The poster described improved reserve cultivation as a triumph over lazy competitors.
Felix stood before it outside the shared-method review desk and found the wording personally exhausting.
“Perhaps they mean someone else,” Lyra said.
The poster included a small drawing of a man reclining beneath a tree.
“A common arrangement,” Felix said.
“Very popular with people who aren’t you.”
The clerk behind the desk looked from the picture to the visitor and wisely waited.
Iron Banner’s local teaching house stood beyond the outer Ashford road. Its recruitment notice promised superior training, greater discipline and a newly improved reserve method. The technical diagram beside the boast used the publicly released gathering foundation.
