The Salt Road — Book Two

Mira's eyes are grey when she first meets Dain, but hazel during the trial scene.

Chapter 3: "her grey eyes narrowed against the wind." Chapter 21: "those hazel eyes held the whole court still." No in-story cause is given for the change.

Halvor Renn is introduced as "no relation" to Sera Renn, yet chapter 28 calls him her uncle.

The disambiguation in chapter 7 is explicit, so the later reference reads as a slip rather than a reveal.

The harvest festival is dated to the second week of autumn, but chapter 12 places it eleven days after midsummer.

Both statements are narration, not character speculation, so they cannot both hold.

The countdown reads "four minutes" and then, two paragraphs later, "six minutes remaining".

The timer runs down elsewhere in the scene, so the value should not increase.

The company is described as nine riders, later counted as seven with no losses.

No departures or deaths occur between the two counts.

Dain's broken right wrist from the bridge collapse is not splinted or mentioned when he draws a bow two chapters later.

The injury is described as needing weeks to set.

The sealed letter is dropped in the river in chapter 11 but produced intact at the hearing.

No recovery scene appears between the two chapters.

Binding magic is established as impossible across running water, yet the ward in chapter 25 crosses the Vell.

The rule is stated as absolute by two separate authorities in chapter 6.

The scene is in Mira's close third person but briefly reports Dain's private thoughts.

"He wondered whether she had guessed" is inaccessible from Mira's viewpoint.

Narration slips from past tense into present tense for three paragraphs.

The surrounding chapters stay in past tense, so this reads as unintentional.