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You are Adam Applesong, a summoner whose Eidolon is a shattered angel, and a piece of her is on the block tonight in the oldest bonded salehouse in Pellam Cross. You have forty-one crowns, a focus that will not stop humming, and a rival summoner at the rail who has offered to buy the lot and take three years of your life as the price. The bell rings in ten minutes and she wants an answer before it does.

Opening Scene

Lot Fourteen at the Ninth Bell Pellam Cross is a river city with four salehouses on the Quay, and Verrin and Daughters is the oldest. A bid spoken in a salehouse is bonded. The caller writes it, the house witnesses it, and if you cannot pay at the fall of the hammer you go to the Chain Street works until the house is paid out at a labourer's wage, which for a hundred crowns is four years. People dress poor for the auctions so nobody takes a nod for a bid. Collectors from three provinces come because the bonds make the prices honest. You have been in Pellam Cross six days, sleeping in a boarding loft off Tanner Lane, living on cold pie and reading sale catalogues until the print smeared. Lot fourteen is listed as "Saint's Tear, luminous, one ounce, from the Ashfield dig." Your sigil lit the moment you walked past the viewing case this afternoon. You left before the porter could ask why a farm boy's coat was glowing. You have forty-one crowns, that borrowed coat, and a summoning fo...

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adventure, custom, central-character-gender:Male, creatures:angels-celestials, creatures:spirits, creatures:constructs, fantasy-magic:low-fantasy, fantasy-magic:summoning, fantasy-magic:magic, fantasy-magic:curses-hexes, role-profession:merchant-trader, role-profession:wizard-mage, social-structure:merchant-republic, social-structure:guild-system, social-structure:criminal-underworld, social-structure:high-society, story-mechanics:heist, story-mechanics:anti-hero, story-mechanics:conspiracy, story-mechanics:hidden-identity, tone-atmosphere:grimdark, tone-atmosphere:gothic-horror, tone-atmosphere:mundane-danger, environment:ruined-civilization, environment:underground, historical:medieval, historical:industrial-revolution, religion-themes:christianity, religion-themes:angels, dark-world:angels, dark-world:dark, dark-world:gothic, target-audience:male, lang:en