Chapter 4
CARRO STARED out the window in a little bay off the wide corridor of the farmhouse that was the Eagle Knight’s base. Large rooms to the left and right were dormitories, each with eight or ten beds. His fellow Knights slept there, in stuffy rooms designed to sleep only two or three people, but he had been tossing and turning on his mat until he grew too annoyed to pretend he was asleep.
The courtyard outside was dark and quiet. Eagles slept in their shed, a low open-walled building on the other side of the courtyard. Carro couldn’t see them from here under the dark overhang of the roof.
He’d made this little alcove his work space, with a flat piece of wood that looked like it had started life as a door for a desk and two narrow shelves for the books. It looked homely and tidy,
