midnight
A weakling , the girl , but useful . '' I spat blood , trying to get the room in focus . For I was inside a room , a room of some translucent substance , windowless , a skylight high above me , through which pink daylight streamed . Daylight -- and it had been midnight in Charin ! I 'd come halfway around the planet in a few seconds ! From somewhere I heard the sound of hammering , tiny , bell-like hammering , the chiming of a fairy anvil . I looked up and saw a man -- a man ?