The Salt Register
In the frozen Baltic port of the amber guild, a new apprentice named Sven arrives to take up the least desirable post in the guildhall: reconciling forty years of neglected assay books. The work is tedious and cold, conf…
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The Gradient
In the summer of 1937, an engineer named Tomás Arismendi arrives in Larija to survey the branch line for closure. He is methodical, solitary, and certain that the railway is a financial drain that must be terminated. His…
The Winter Assay
In the depths of a Baltic winter, the Assay Office of Kühlhaven discovers a one-gram daily discrepancy in its amber ledger. Master Assayer Grigory, a man who trusts only his scales, must find the source of the error befo…
The Croft Dossier
Bristol, 1887. Board of Trade inspector Sarah Croft arrives to investigate an impossible duplicate countersign in the harbour ledgers. She already knows how it was made: three nights earlier, she traced Clerk Elias Thorn…