“There.” The single syllable came from one of the biggest Lessers Hafsa had ever seen. She might even have confused him for a Petty Noble if not for the Ihashe grays he wore and the absence of the supplementary musculature characteristic of Noble males. Long ago, in her final year of studies, she’d wanted to write a treatise on the physical differences between Lessers and Greaters, but her adviser had warned her away from the topic, telling her that—
