Chapter 17: Pick Another Woman for You

He had only just arrived, and the place was already a powder keg. More accurately, he was the target everyone wanted to shoot. Stirring up trouble, getting "magic replenishment" and all that, could wait. Once the bed curtains were drawn, the steady, even breathing of three women soon drifted through the dark. Ethan Letherdale yawned and fell asleep not long after. At five in the morning, a shrill whistle ripped him awake. Lydia Yale and the others were used to it. They sprang out of bed, washed...