((Waking World and Dry Grass))
Letter after letter, topic after topic. They became rote. They became routine. They became a signature of Hammered Silver after every little decision that A Finger Pointing made which did not meet her standards. Every little decision that anyone made, if what True Name and Praiseworthy had to say was true.
-And it was not just her, after all, was it? For, when Motes first +
And it was not just her, after all, was it?
+For better or worse, she was the representative of her stanza. She was a synecdoche for it: she was the fifth stanza. ((the past: Motes))
((bitterness and compromises with Dry Grass))