The Permanent Chapter

KAELEN'S POV

May.

Five weeks after the arrival. The particular quality of May in the city — not the argumentative spring of March, not the tentative beginning of April, but May properly: the light longer, the warmth committed, the city with its specific energy of a place that has remembered what it is when not contracted against the cold.

He ran at four-thirty, as he always did.

Came back at five-