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AFTER JINTHO was gone, Ellisandra threw another firebrick on the fire, dragged her chair closer and went back to the book of Foundation Law.
As soon as she opened the pages and the musty smell of the unused book hit her, she felt sleepy. The intense cold of the theatre always made her tired, something she didn’t usually notice until she sat at home by the fire and her cheeks glowed and her hands pricked with sensation coming back into them.
She forced herself to read the first page. The section that detailed ancient Foundation Law wasn’t very big. It was the exceptions and amendments that had been made afterwards that made the law books cumbersome. Sections like the one she’d been reading before Jintho came in. She’d lost where that was, and although the information was interesting,
