brand new colony

When he signs off it's well past midnight, and even in Til Tomeil it's gotten late. Medraut goes to bed, for what sleep he can manage, and in the morning sends word to Galman that he's going to be late today. Then he takes a deep breath, and sits down with the comm. It's going to be a long day.

Gwalchmai is in one of his soaringly good moods, the kind where he has to concentrate to keep from running everywhere he needs to go and everywhere he doesn't need to as well. All his brothers are here now, within his reach, and he wants very much to run off and make much of Gadriet, show off his brother to his world, show off his world to his brother -

But he has work to do and he is, by dint of considerable effort, bending all that excess energy to necessary paperwork, sitting at his desk in his office instead of running all over creation like some undisciplined puppy.