Not expecting the answer to reach her soon, Whisper decided to leave the cover of the place from where she sent her reports—Farini's hat.
By now Farini got so used to keeping Whisper inside that his hat had windows for Whisper to look or exit through. If she brought wax tablets with her, she had enough light to read or write.
And Farini washed his hair more often.
Whisper crawled through the hat's window-hole and looked outside. Farini was still kneeling near the building temple, and his thoughts were still full of heavy concerns.
He also hoped that building this temple would miraculously heal the plague—this was why he spent so much time there. Whisper didn't like that, but if she discouraged him from praying, Farini ended up acting nervously and erratically all day.
So Whisper let him. He was more useful when calm, anyway.
