There are twelve rooms on the top corridor and every one of them has a blind on the inside of the door, and the blinds are the only property in this building that cannot be taken by working harder.

Everything observed gets filed. Everything filed moves a number. Everything behind a blind is unobserved, and an unobserved hour is the only hour in Halcyon that does not exist.

TamsinTwelve blinds. Four hundred students. I have had one for two years and I have never once been able to explain to anybody what it is actually for.