On the Mainland, unaware of the desperate straits to which his student was being forced to, Jonah was going through a ledger that detailed the enormous Energy expenditure of the army that would soon set out to Angaria.
His bones still hurt from the last of the frequent torture sessions, but he was still the one put in charge of maintaining this force that had been assembled. Hence, even though he had spent the last two hours being questioned for the umpteenth time about what else he could tell about the continent that might help in the war effort, he now found himself dutifully going through the list to see if there were any discrepancies.