THRONE WATCH — we watch, so you don't have to.
Something small and quietly odd happened over the west hills last night.
Watchers counted the fire-rings — great rings of golden fire, drifting through the dark, bright-edged and slow — starting west, as if they meant to go somewhere, then drifting back east again, unhurried, as if they had changed their minds.
Nobody knows why they turned back. The scholars have theories, most of them involving the wind, and one involving the rings simply preferring the view from this side. Nobody is worried. The Watch's official position is that the rings do what the rings do, and our job is to notice, and to tell you.
So: if the night is clear, look west after dark, then look east again. The rings may drift either way. Either way, it is worth looking up.