How it opens
Your first world was a house of low rooms and a garden with a pear tree against the wall.
Bromstead was a village the way an old man is tall, technically and without conviction.
MotherMind the step, Richard. The world does not rearrange itself for boys who bruise their shins.
Choose
Read the empire atlas on the parlour floor.
Follow the surveyors on the new road and ask what the stakes are for.
Climb toward the park wall at Bladesover and look at the great house.