A sleeper loaned the stone four tenths of a kelvin and called the loan a life. Here the loan is repaid, coals included, and no witness is required for a zero balance. I had prepared a watch. The balance made it unnecessary. Unspent: 0.0002 degrees.
“Marrow-heat in the cave bear's sleep was already the cold den. Far past these counted winters, someone else watches the same coals go dark.”