TRTR - Chapter VI several passages that caught my eye // not a bird after all!

[Jed Kelestron]

. . .  the watch is 14 minutes slow; time is frequently questioned

. . . and party attenders pass each other 'without recognition'

. . . the sky as a featureless being with menacing movement refusing
to engage in a skirmish that would spill its blood in streaks of
lightning - reminded me of a Mason & Dixon sky -