Estel had not been keeping close track of time since her first month north. No one up in Kellis tracked weeks, moons and months were almost but inexactly the same and she didn't want to leave her girlfriend or her job, or think about doing that.
Her orders were a six-month tour before she'd report back to the Order of the Pike and her superior officer would reassess whether she should stay as a trainer in the north rather than part of monster-hunting squads in Molthune. But no one tracked time precisely. So she didn't notice she'd overstayed her orders until nearly two weeks after she'd agreed to return.