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In times of war certain luxuries dropped out of the supply chain, which lately had included paper. A part of Ashe felt colossally selfish for taking a sheet from their reserves, but he hadn't written home in quite a while. He knew his brother worried.
So he was aware that he couldn’t afford to waste it: to get a single sentence wrong and have to start all over again. Yet he'd got no further than the introduction since he'd slipped into the war-room for use of a desk—so the sound of footsteps was a welcome distraction.
“Could you hear the cogs in my head turning?” he asked, greeting Iris with a smile that was almost relieved. Not just because she gave him an excuse to stop writing for a bit. “It’s good to see you up and about.”

















