Morning came with the particular quality of first days.
The Kings chamber held the familiarity of a space that had hosted a year's worth of sessions and had acquired the specific atmosphere that rooms acquired when significant things had happened inside them repeatedly. The light came through the high windows at the angle that the mountain's orientation produced, the same angle that had illuminated the first year's early arguments and the later sessions where the arguments had given way to something more interesting.
All ten Kings were present.
