Herva

Four lay there, and three of them were mine to take. The mark was already sitting on the fourth, too.

• AshwingFourth. Fourth. Fourth.
  HervaDon't say it three times.
• SiglinThe ledger has it as four. Which one of us is wrong.
  HervaGo back and count again.

Read the same line three times again today. Reading it doesn't erase it, either.

• SiglinReading isn't the job. Erasing, or bringing them in. Those are the job.
  HervaI know that.
• KetilHeh, that line? The bones landed on the same spot three times yesterday.
  HervaThe ferryman should stick to his oar.

There's a house where the fire keeps going out on its own. I didn't ask why he's still breathing. I checked.

• SiglinChecking isn't deciding.
  HervaI know that much.
• KetilI supply the oil for that house, and it's never gone out on its own before.
  HervaNow it has.