Tarnedrift Steps
Tobin
“A broad-shouldered boy the size of a doorway, wearing a striped apron and rolled-up sleeves, with flour on his hands.”
Tobin is a cheerful cart-pusher who lives half a stairway below Mira and stands as tall as a doorway. He likes steady routines and knows which landings are busiest at different times of day.
2 stories feature Tobin
Where you've met them
The Platform Starts to Drift
On the Tarnedrift Steps, a lower sky-platform begins to slide loose from its stone anchors after a night of heavy cloud-wash. It will not fall far, but if it drifts away it will take the stair-bridge, water barrels, and the only safe path between two homes with it.
Mira and the Ringing Threads
On the Tarnedrift Steps, Mira hears Sella’s balcony bells ring by themselves and spots gray threads drifting toward a half-finished terrace. At the same moment, Tobin calls out for his missing cart rope, and Mira must decide which strange thread to follow first.