Chapter 2
Chapter 2
The Daykeepers and the Daystones
Very long ago, days had no names. Today could not be told from tomorrow, so no one waited and no one was let down. People call that time the Nameless Days.
Then the Daykeepers were founded. In Daycrest, the belfry on the hill, they hung the Great Calendar and wrote down every promise in the world beside its date. When a promised day came they rang the bell, and at its sound the waiting scattered into Unbound Light.
The Daykeepers had six rooms, one for each of six kinds of promise, and twelve Month Wardens, one for each of the twelve months. A world where promises were kept. It was the best time Overmorrow ever had.
At every crossroads they raised a Daystone. It is a grey standing stone taller than a person, with six wooden arms that point to the six regions. At the end of each arm is a carving: a flame, a wave, a mushroom, a lightning bolt, a sun, a candle.
These words are carved on the Daystones: "On the promised day, at the promised place." Each dawn the stone-keepers drew one chalk mark on the stone, counting for everyone how many days of waiting had passed.
End of chapter 2
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