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Varena's milk production has surged in the wake of her courtship with Kyren. Khari, given a consistent supply, spends two weeks producing a soft cheese of extraordinary richness, the musky complexity transformed by process into something the street cautiously discovers and mostly comes back for. Raskon arrives one Thursday with Darit, a compact hill-breed gheval he has quietly adopted, and Chenar's response is immediate and uncharacteristic: he approaches the newcomer with a carefulness he doesn't usually bother with, and Darit, who has been returned once already and knows the difference between a place that suits him and one that doesn't, does not move away. Kyren, meanwhile, constructs a symbol the terminal doesn't have to ask whether Varena's abundance is good for Tassa, and the answer satisfies him in a way that seems to settle something larger. By midsummer the household has expanded again without anyone deciding to expand it. But with Kalina still unconfirmed and Chenar's careful new friendship with Darit deepening through the summer, what will the turning of the season bring?