The Tide Chart Folds Inward — Throne of Glass Reading Music

A wooden chart room aboard a vessel still at anchor. The map is folded inward, the lamps are almost out, and someone is deciding who they can afford to protect. Low harp and baritone viola share a four-note folding-map motif over bowed psaltery and bass flute, with rope-and-wood room texture underneath. A distant frame drum surfaces at only two structural moments. No shanty rhythm, no storm, no adventure fanfare — this is leadership before a war, held quiet.