CONTENTS

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Ex Libris

Map

Elements of the Clock and Calendar

The Guild Towers of Gallia District and Their Exports

Invocation of the Muse

Part I

A Gut Run

Stolen Goods

Caput Mortuum

Sacked

A Felon

A Night Visit

Tatu

An Odd Assignment

Coracles

Beklemek

Body Count

Six Lines

Ice

A Conjuror

Ships

An Odd Remedy

Exports

A Girl

Al-Razi

An Odd Mistake

Gea

Préférerais Tu

Part II

Relics

Falling

The Twig

Purgament

The Shard

Stillness

The Remains

A Rescue

The Baidaq

Birth-Night

The Three of Spades

The River

The Khazarite’s Journal

A Pub Squall

High Poetry

Fylgia

Spoke

Utlag

The Sewers

The Attarh

The Riverbank Yurt

Wolf Work

In the Gutters

A Thief

Seen

A Name

Five Hundred Pages

Sallanen

Gaol

Iosal

A Going-Story

The Muse

No Reflection

A Guest

The Bluebird

Banhus-Theof

Collateral

A Mis-Telling

Tangled

Empty-Handed

Rising

Part III

Ready

Border Crossing

Corrections

Darkness

A Ghost

Sunrise

Master Guilder

Bound

The Apothecary

A Contract

A Stranger

Knotwork

Waiting

Mine

A Question

Mercy

Mirrors

Gallus

Burning

Farewell

Mearc-Stapa

Sonhos

The Prize

Brother Enemies

The Small Uurs

Chicken Drama

Help

By a Thread

A Delivery

An Odd Letter

Part IV

Regrets

Parting

The Gauntlet

Unready

More Poetry

Suspicions

Cold Questions

A Fool

Math

Half Brother

Lost

Sacrifice

Encrypted

The Messenger

The Crow

Unforgotten

Irfelaf

Fur

A Roof Master

The Vault

Undone

Done

Predator

An Army

Rest in Peace

Vitriol

The Double

Fright

In the Balance

A High Meeting

In a Tent

Dawn

Gauntless

One Relic

Part V

The Streetcat

Second Sight

Scars

Familiars

A Binding

An Assembly

She

The Guildmaster

Paperwork

Opening Lines

Epilogue

Ex Libris Lb

Acknowledgments

About the Author