I volunteered before Seraphina finished describing the problem.
That was how I knew the evening had started badly.
The camp had two student watch periods to fill after the staff inspection. One covered the stores and the marked path to the water point. The other overlapped the hour when Nyx needed to begin her route check for the next morning's exercise.
Seraphina had spent the afternoon examining minor injuries and helping the course healer with two students from another group. Her own medical lead wanted an uninterrupted rest block before tomorrow's work.
I looked at the empty place on the roster and offered my name.
It seemed straightforward. I was sitting down already. Sitting somewhere else with a list beside me hardly sounded like an unreasonable amount of work.
The fact that I had spent part of the meal changing the position of my supported arm didn't enter that calculation until Veylan's eyes went to it.
