Residents

• A verse for a gem. A gem for a verse. We are both wasting our time, but beautifully.
• I have written a poem about you. It is short. It is 'hm.'

• 'Red the sky and red the stone / and red the long road leading home.' Gem?
• I've been commissioned to write the Ledger's epitaph. It's taking a while. It isn't dead yet.
• Rhymes with 'Endsville': nothing. I checked. That's the whole poem.

• Fish! Fresh! Mostly! Fish!
• Everything from the coast smells like the coast. That's the deal.

• The pier's longer every time I look at it. I've stopped looking.
• Keeper at the lighthouse doesn't ask where you've been. I do. Where've you been?
• Salt in the air, salt in the bread, salt in the sermon.

• You came all the way down. Sit. Nobody here wants anything from you. That is the whole point of the place.

• We read the blank. It says nothing. We are on page one. We have been for some time.
• The Underwriter has a desk out east of here. It writes and writes. Nothing it writes stays.
• Ride the Long Drop up when you want to be owed something again.

• The light has not gone out since the last ship. There has not been a ship since.
• I keep it lit anyway. A light is a promise. Promises do not check who is listening.

• Climb to the lamp if you like. Mind the third ladder. It is pretending to be a ladder.
• The pier goes out a long way. Past the last lantern the big ones look up.
• There was an Endsville here before. It is under the water. On a still night you can hear its bells.
• The Salt Wardens remember the drowned city. Somebody has to. The Deed Office only remembers names.

GIVES Oil For The Lamp

• Brinehold harbour. No ships in, no ships out, all logged.
• The last ship was the Last Offer. She sank with her cargo: a whole Endsville's worth of paperwork.

• The Drowned Vaults are under the old customs stair. The previous harbourmaster is still at his post down there.
• He has not been relieved. He would like to be. Relieve him.

GIVES Relieve The Harbourmaster

• Anything to declare? Nothing? Excellent. Nothing is my favourite thing to stamp.

• The shrine counts you in. I count you out. Between us we count you twice, which is how the Deed likes it.

• Bait, rope, bandages. And I buy fish, for less than you hoped.

• Kraken Cove is at the end of the pier. Bring good bait. Bring a better excuse.

SELLS Waypoint Scroll (30g), Linen Bandage (10g), Grave Tonic (30g), Rope (10g), Snare Kit (15g), Grub Bait (5g)

• Bandages, tonics, scrolls. Prices are higher down here. So are you, in a sense. Lower. You know what I mean.

• I do not go up. Up is where the debts are.
• Buy a Waypoint Scroll. The walk back is longer than you remember.

SELLS Waypoint Scroll (30g), Linen Bandage (10g), Grave Tonic (30g), Rope (10g), Snare Kit (15g), Grub Bait (5g)

• Nets do not mend themselves. I checked. Twice.
• If you fish off the pier, go past the lanterns. The bass live near. The others live far.

• Bass for the beginner. Carp for the patient. Catfish for the stubborn. The deep ones for the foolish.
• A black pearl once came up on my line. I put it back. It was looking at me.

GIVES Nets Need Carp

• I am walking to the far edge of the map. I hear it is not finished. I want to see what unfinished looks like.
• Every stone on this road has been stepped on by somebody who was also lost.

• Homestead, Ashfield, the Hollow, the Coast. Then the Edge. Then I'll turn round and do it in the other order.
• The waystones only take you where you've been. That's not travel. That's memory with a bus pass.
• Carry water. Carry bread. Carry a reason.

• Just walking. Is that allowed? Nobody has told me it isn't.
• Nice evening. Red. Like every evening. I like a consistent sky.

• I live three doors down. Every door on the lane is three doors down. Funny place.
• Some nights the moon is the right size. Tonight it isn't.
• I once walked to Saltgrave by accident. Took the wrong 'left'.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.
• Down here the ore is honest. It is the only thing that is.

• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.
• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.
• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.
• DROWNED GRAVEYARD, this way. Mind the tide. The tide does not mind you.

• The tide brought me here. It will take me back. We have an arrangement.
• Beds upstairs, stew downstairs, gossip everywhere. Mind the third step. It owes me money.

• Beds upstairs, stew downstairs, gossip everywhere. Mind the third step. It owes me money.
• Travellers come through here going east. Fewer come back west. The ones who do eat twice.
• THE COAST ROAD. Salt on the wind, salt on the stones, salt in the stew. Brinehold west.
• A ship's bell, green with age, rung by nothing. It still keeps the watches. It is on the third one.

• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.
• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.
• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.
• DROWNED GRAVEYARD, this way. Mind the tide. The tide does not mind you.

• From the cliffs you can see the line where the sea stops being water and starts being paper.

• I came up here to be alone. The view would not leave me alone. We get on now.
• The Unsigned send letters to the sea. The sea sends them back stamped 'insufficient name'.

GIVES The Paper Horizon

• Just walking. Is that allowed? Nobody has told me it isn't.
• Nice evening. Red. Like every evening. I like a consistent sky.

• I live three doors down. Every door on the lane is three doors down. Funny place.
• Some nights the moon is the right size. Tonight it isn't.
• I once walked to Saltgrave by accident. Took the wrong 'left'.

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.
• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.
• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.
• THE WHITE CLIFFS. Do not stand at the edge. The edge stands at you.

• A verse for a gem. A gem for a verse. We are both wasting our time, but beautifully.
• I have written a poem about you. It is short. It is 'hm.'

• 'Red the sky and red the stone / and red the long road leading home.' Gem?
• I've been commissioned to write the Ledger's epitaph. It's taking a while. It isn't dead yet.
• Rhymes with 'Endsville': nothing. I checked. That's the whole poem.

• The tide brought me here. It will take me back. We have an arrangement.
• The soil out here does what it likes. I plant what it likes. We get along.

• The soil out here does what it likes. I plant what it likes. We get along.
• Something walks the rows at night. It never takes anything. It just checks.
• Last fresh water for thirty tiles. Next fresh water: the sea, technically.
• A clerk's ledger, swollen with seawater. Every entry reads 'returned to the sea'. The handwriting improves as it goes.

• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.
• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.
• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.
• Fishing is free. Catching is extra.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.
• Down here the ore is honest. It is the only thing that is.

• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.
• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.
• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.
• DROWNED GRAVEYARD, this way. Mind the tide. The tide does not mind you.

• Blub. Sorry. Habit.
• I am not dangerous. I am damp. There is a difference and I have studied it.

• The graves are all facing up. We like the light, even down here.
• If you find something shiny, put it back. If you cannot put it back, put something else in its place. Fairness.

GIVES Ring The Bell Reef

• Fish! Fresh! Mostly! Fish!
• Everything from the coast smells like the coast. That's the deal.

• The pier's longer every time I look at it. I've stopped looking.
• Keeper at the lighthouse doesn't ask where you've been. I do. Where've you been?
• Salt in the air, salt in the bread, salt in the sermon.

• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.
• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.
• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.
• DROWNED GRAVEYARD, this way. Mind the tide. The tide does not mind you.

• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.
• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.
• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.
• THE COAST ROAD. Salt on the wind, salt on the stones, salt in the stew. Brinehold west.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.
• Down here the ore is honest. It is the only thing that is.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.
• Down here the ore is honest. It is the only thing that is.

• The road runs from under the sea to under the Last Page. I have walked it twice. It was the same road both times. That is unusual, here.

• Reapers walk the road in twos. Skeletons in threes. Brutes alone. Count, then run.
• Shard stairs go up from the road. Things get left on top. I do not know who leaves them. Maybe you, later.

• Late. Late. Sorry - late. Do you know a shortcut? No? Me neither. Late.
• Letters for the Exchange. Letters for the Deed Office. One letter for a dog. Do not ask.

• Letter for someone called 'Occupant'. Everybody's an occupant. I'll deliver it to all of you.
• The Long Pier doesn't end. Try delivering to the end of the Long Pier.
• Have you seen a small brass key? Not mine. Just wondering.

• Fresh this morning. Cursed this afternoon. You pick.
• The cow is fine. The cow is always fine. It is the rest of us.

• The farms past the East Gate are the only honest ground in the country.
• Cream for the baker, milk for the chapel, the rest for the cat. The cat is doing well.
• Old Thatch says the turnips bite. The turnips have never once bitten me. I'm offended.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.
• Down here the ore is honest. It is the only thing that is.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.
• Down here the ore is honest. It is the only thing that is.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.
• Down here the ore is honest. It is the only thing that is.

• Have you heard? No? Good. I'll go first.
• I know everything that happens on this street. Half of it is even true.

• Clerk Debit and Clerk Credit haven't spoken in nine years. The wall between them is load-bearing.
• Someone saw a light in the Lower Ledger with nobody holding it. Someone always sees that.
• The Operator was on the street last night. Or a very tall lamp. Hard to say.
• Mandy's gem counts are never wrong. That is the single most frightening fact I know.

• The mill grinds what you bring it. Grain, gravel, grudges.
• The sails turn when nobody is looking. Please do not look.

• Climb to the cap if you like. On a clear night you can see the city lamps and the sea at once.
• The mill was here before the Marches. The Marches grew around it, like a fence around a dog.

GIVES Grist For The Mill

• I am walking to the far edge of the map. I hear it is not finished. I want to see what unfinished looks like.
• Every stone on this road has been stepped on by somebody who was also lost.

• Homestead, Ashfield, the Hollow, the Coast. Then the Edge. Then I'll turn round and do it in the other order.
• The waystones only take you where you've been. That's not travel. That's memory with a bus pass.
• Carry water. Carry bread. Carry a reason.

• Just walking. Is that allowed? Nobody has told me it isn't.
• Nice evening. Red. Like every evening. I like a consistent sky.

• I live three doors down. Every door on the lane is three doors down. Funny place.
• Some nights the moon is the right size. Tonight it isn't.
• I once walked to Saltgrave by accident. Took the wrong 'left'.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.
• Down here the ore is honest. It is the only thing that is.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.
• Down here the ore is honest. It is the only thing that is.

• He's friendly. He's just also invisible. Long story. Short dog.
• We go up the street, we go down the street. He thinks it is a different street each time. I let him.

• He found a bone yesterday. In the graveyard. We put it back. Mostly.
• Don't throw anything. He'll bring back something else.
• Sit. Sit. ...He doesn't sit. Neither do I. We're alike.

• Have you heard? No? Good. I'll go first.
• I know everything that happens on this street. Half of it is even true.

• Clerk Debit and Clerk Credit haven't spoken in nine years. The wall between them is load-bearing.
• Someone saw a light in the Lower Ledger with nobody holding it. Someone always sees that.
• The Operator was on the street last night. Or a very tall lamp. Hard to say.
• Mandy's gem counts are never wrong. That is the single most frightening fact I know.

• Letters for everyone! Mostly for nobody. Some for you, probably, eventually.

• I deliver to every shrine. The shrines do not have hands. I leave the parcels on top.
• West of the river the road goes to the sea. East it goes to the city. Down it goes to the cellars. Up goes nowhere. Yet.

GIVES The Postie's Round

• I am not afraid of the hounds. I have simply moved my bed to the cellar.
• ...The cellar is also not ideal.

• Hounds nose about the lanes after dark. Two of them. Possibly three. One may be a large cat.
• Every door on the lane opens your house. Mine opens mine. I filed a complaint. Quill filed it.

GIVES Mr. Latch Has A Problem, Leave Them Be

• Have you heard? No? Good. I'll go first.
• I know everything that happens on this street. Half of it is even true.

• Clerk Debit and Clerk Credit haven't spoken in nine years. The wall between them is load-bearing.
• Someone saw a light in the Lower Ledger with nobody holding it. Someone always sees that.
• The Operator was on the street last night. Or a very tall lamp. Hard to say.
• Mandy's gem counts are never wrong. That is the single most frightening fact I know.

• Tea? It tastes of nothing. That is the point.
• I grow what the soil allows and brew what the soil does not notice.

• Grave minnows in the river make the best tea. Do not ask what the worst is made of.
• The Root Mother under the cellars was a farmer once. She just kept tending things.

GIVES Something For The Tea

• Mind the rows. The turnips bite.
• Mulch keeps the real patch through the shed. I keep the rest in line. Mostly the weeds.

• Crops grow slower out here than in the city. They grow better. Do not ask me why.
• That scarecrow is not mine. I did not put it up. It has not moved. I am watching it.
• The Root Cellars are under the cellar hut. We stopped storing turnips there. The turnips asked us to.

GIVES Bats In The Beans, The Root Cellars

• Bread, eggs, the odd bit of luck. We share. The Marches share.

• The river floods every spring and drowns the same field. We plant it every year. It is a kind of stubbornness.

GIVES Kindling

• Bandages, tonics, scrolls. Prices are higher down here. So are you, in a sense. Lower. You know what I mean.

• I do not go up. Up is where the debts are.
• Buy a Waypoint Scroll. The walk back is longer than you remember.

SELLS Waypoint Scroll (30g), Linen Bandage (10g), Grave Tonic (30g), Rope (10g), Snare Kit (15g), Grub Bait (5g)

• I am walking to the far edge of the map. I hear it is not finished. I want to see what unfinished looks like.
• Every stone on this road has been stepped on by somebody who was also lost.

• Homestead, Ashfield, the Hollow, the Coast. Then the Edge. Then I'll turn round and do it in the other order.
• The waystones only take you where you've been. That's not travel. That's memory with a bus pass.
• Carry water. Carry bread. Carry a reason.

• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.
• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.
• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.
• TO THE CITY: east. TO THE SEA: west. TO BED: whenever you like.

• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.
• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.
• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.
• THE MARCHES. Fences mean somebody cares. Gaps in fences mean somebody stopped.

• The Tollgate. The toll is your name, spoken clearly. You may pass.
• ...You may pass anyway. Nobody pays. I keep the form.

• The city is east of here. The farms west. The road between is mine. I am very proud of it.
• I once stopped the Operator for a toll. He said he would pay by morning.

• Need something carried? I carry it. Need something forgotten? That costs extra.

• Every street in the city has a name. Half of them are on the Deed. The other half are on me.

• Just walking. Is that allowed? Nobody has told me it isn't.
• Nice evening. Red. Like every evening. I like a consistent sky.

• I live three doors down. Every door on the lane is three doors down. Funny place.
• Some nights the moon is the right size. Tonight it isn't.
• I once walked to Saltgrave by accident. Took the wrong 'left'.

• Letters written, read, or quietly lost. Three prices.

• People write to the Underwriter. I post the letters down the Long Drop. None come back. Some get answered.

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.
• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.
• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.
• Keep to the lamps.

• Wick, oil, glass, light. In that order. Every lamp on this street, every evening.

• The lamps are older than the houses. The houses were built where the light already was.

• Late. Late. Sorry - late. Do you know a shortcut? No? Me neither. Late.
• Letters for the Exchange. Letters for the Deed Office. One letter for a dog. Do not ask.

• Letter for someone called 'Occupant'. Everybody's an occupant. I'll deliver it to all of you.
• The Long Pier doesn't end. Try delivering to the end of the Long Pier.
• Have you seen a small brass key? Not mine. Just wondering.

• Mind the stones. I laid them. They remember every boot.

• Under the street there is another street. Under that one, the Undercroft. Under that, the Archives. It is streets all the way down.

• News! The Deed comes due! News! It came due last year too! News!

• Hounds on the Marches, skeletons in Cinderreach, something tall at the Blank Desk. Buy a paper. It is blank. Very current.

• Ore for ore. Nothing for nothing. I am very fair.

• The deepest ore is out on the bridges, over nothing. Mind the edge. The nothing minds you.
• I came down to get away from the Deed. It followed me as far as the Small Print. It does not like the dark.

• Sweep the street, the street gets dirty, sweep the street. It is a living.

• Found a tooth in the gutter yesterday. Giant's tooth. Small giant. Bonefields are leaking.

• Can't stop. Well. I can stop. I am stopping. But I shouldn't.
• Three errands, two legs. The maths has never worked.

• If you see Tallow, I was never here.
• The Exchange closes never. That is the problem. There is always one more thing.
• I run. Everybody else walks. We arrive at the same time. I do not understand this city.

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.
• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.
• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.
• Keep to the lamps.

• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.
• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.
• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.
• Keep to the lamps.

• West gate. Homestead that way, then the sea. State your business.
• ...Nobody ever states a business. I just like the sound of it.

• The road west is safe. The road east is honest. Learn the difference.
• I counted everyone who came through today. I got a different number every time. That is normal.

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.
• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.
• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.
• Keep to the lamps.

• Welcome to Endsville. I am Quill. I file things.
• Your name is on the Deed. That is why you are here. That is why anyone is anywhere.
• The door behind me is your Home Gate. Every home in this city is your home. The paperwork is generous.

• The Deed comes due this season. It always comes due. We always sign. That is what a city is.
• If a name is forgotten, the Underwriter collects it. So I remember them. All of them. Out loud, mostly at night.
• The Unsigned think tearing up the Deed would set us free. It would set us falling. There is a lot of down.
• The Records Hall upstairs keeps every name since the first Endsville. Some of the early ones are drawings.
• Take the Long Drop in the plaza if you want to see what happens to paperwork nobody files. Bring a lamp.
• A word on chests: what is in a chest at your home is safe. What is in your pockets when you black out is the street's.

GIVES The Deed Comes Due

• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.
• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.
• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.
• Keep to the lamps.

• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.
• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.
• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.
• Keep to the lamps.

• Can't stop. Well. I can stop. I am stopping. But I shouldn't.
• Three errands, two legs. The maths has never worked.

• If you see Tallow, I was never here.
• The Exchange closes never. That is the problem. There is always one more thing.
• I run. Everybody else walks. We arrive at the same time. I do not understand this city.

• Are you a hero? You walk like a hero. A tired one.
• I'm not lost. The street is. I'm exactly where I am.

• I'm going to have wings one day. Real ones. From the Forge. Mum says 'we'll see'. That means yes.
• Did you know chests fill back up? I check them. All of them. All the time.
• My friend says the Exchange is a dragon that eats gems and spits out iron. I believe him.

• The Records Hall. Every name, every Endsville. Please do not breathe on the early volumes.

• There is a gap in the records, three Endsvilles ago. Thirty pages. Every one torn out by the same hand.
• The hand matches the Operator's signature. I have filed this observation under 'later'.

GIVES Ten Shrines, Ten Regions

• Forty years I have lit these lamps. One goes out for every one I light.
• Up there, above the clock, is the Roost. The Deed only owns what is on the line. Above it is ours.

• Take the Bell Lift by the clocktower. At the top, look down. Then look up. Then stop looking down.
• A lamp is a promise. Promises do not check who is listening.
• The Lamplighters are not a faction. We are a habit. A good one.
• If you find a lamp burning where nobody lit it, leave it. Someone needed it more than you.

GIVES Above The Line

• Flowers for the shrine, flowers for the dead, flowers for whoever you are trying to impress.

• The roses here only grow red. We tried white. They blushed.

• Scrolls, bandages, tonics, rope. And I buy what you carry, for what it is worth. Today.

• Prices move with the market. The market moves with the moon. The moon will not discuss it.
• A Waypoint Scroll takes you to any shrine you have touched. Touch them all. Walking is for the young.

SELLS Waypoint Scroll (30g), Pitch Torch (15g), Linen Bandage (10g), Grave Tonic (30g), Rope (10g), Snare Kit (15g), Grub Bait (5g)

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.
• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.
• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.
• Keep to the lamps.

• Just walking. Is that allowed? Nobody has told me it isn't.
• Nice evening. Red. Like every evening. I like a consistent sky.

• I live three doors down. Every door on the lane is three doors down. Funny place.
• Some nights the moon is the right size. Tonight it isn't.
• I once walked to Saltgrave by accident. Took the wrong 'left'.

• Just walking. Is that allowed? Nobody has told me it isn't.
• Nice evening. Red. Like every evening. I like a consistent sky.

• I live three doors down. Every door on the lane is three doors down. Funny place.
• Some nights the moon is the right size. Tonight it isn't.
• I once walked to Saltgrave by accident. Took the wrong 'left'.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.
• Down here the ore is honest. It is the only thing that is.

• Forty years at the Deed Office. I filed eleven thousand names. I remember four. Two of them are mine.

• Quill is a good registrar. Too honest. The Deed does not like honest. It likes thorough.

• Are you a visitor? You look like a visitor. Visitors have the good boots.

• I am not allowed on the Long Drop. I went on the Long Drop. It was brilliant. Do not tell my mum.

• The Long Table. Sit anywhere. Everyone ends up at the same table eventually.
• Ladle cooks through the back door. Mind the steam. It has opinions.

• Soup of the day: yesterday's. It is better the second time. So is most of Endsville.
• I heard the Unsigned meet in the Bonefields. I heard the Clerks heard too. I hear a lot. I pour slowly.

GIVES Tallow Runs

• Bread for the living, crusts for the lamps, crumbs for the birds. Nobody gets nothing.

• The ovens never go out. Not once. Not since the third Endsville. I keep the fire. The fire keeps me.
• Bring me timber and I will bake you something warm enough to argue with.

GIVES Warm Bread Needs Warm Wood

• Keep moving. Nothing to see. There is never anything to see. That is what we are for.

• The East Gate shuts at night. It does not lock. It just shuts, so things have to knock.

• Bags carried, crates moved, regrets lifted. Two out of three.

• The Long Drop goes to the bottom of the page. I have carried crates to the Archives. Never further. Never asked to.

GIVES The Long Drop, The Porter's Weight

• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.
• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.
• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.
• Keep to the lamps.

• You came up. Most people only ever look. Welcome to the Roost, above the line.
• Down there everything is on the Deed. Up here, nothing is. We are a note in the margin.

• Marrow lights the lamps below. I light the ones up here. Between us the city is never dark and never lit.
• Heartwood grows only above the line. The trees do not owe anything, so they grow straight.
• The third way is not up or down. It is sideways, into the margin. The Operator knows. He will not say it out loud.

• Bandages and tonics, right by the gate where the hounds find the new ones. Press the red cross by your hearts to use one.
• A bandage gives two hearts back. A tonic gives five. Buy a few before you leave the plaza.

• Hearts come back on their own if nothing bites you for a while. Bandages are for when something does.
• If you black out, the street carries you home. Your pockets come with you. Your pride does not.

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• The clock is never wrong. It is merely early, consistently, by a lifetime.

• The Operator wound this clock once. He said he would come back to set it. It is still the same morning.
• From the top you can see every region. Ten of them. From the Roost you can see the eleventh. Do not ask.

• Hems, seams, hoods, hats. I can mend anything but a name.

• The Operator's coat came in once. Every stitch was a signature. I gave it back unmended. Some things should stay as they are.

• Scrolls and tonics, lifted by hand. A Waypoint Scroll up here costs the same. The view is free.

• I buy heartwood. Nobody else can reach it. That is what makes it worth anything.

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• A song for a gem? A gem for a song? I am flexible on the order.

• I know every song in Endsville. There are only three. They are very long.

• Master sent me out for 'a long weight'. I've been waiting all day. ...Oh.
• I'm learning. Slowly. The slow part is the learning.

• Smithing's hard. The iron doesn't want to be a bar. I get it. Neither do I.
• Master says: 'Measure twice.' I measure eleven times. It's still wrong.
• Cooking next week. The cauldron has been warned.

• Debit. Left window. Things that go out.
• My sister is at the right window. We do not talk. We reconcile.

• Nothing leaves without a line. Nothing arrives without two.
• Your offers wait at the station until you collect. The hall does not deliver. The hall remembers.
• I am not dead. I am audited. There is a difference and I can show you the form.

• The Endsville Exchange. Post an offer at the Trading Station - buy or sell, name your price - and the hall finds the other side.
• Players trade with players here. When nobody bites, my clerks do. They buy cheap and sell dear. They are clerks.

• Every gem in Endsville is counted twice: once when it is earned, once when somebody forgets it.
• The vault downstairs has a door that only opens when nobody is looking at it. It is very secure.
• If the Deed is torn, every debt in this building is void. That is why the Unsigned keep visiting. To look.

GIVES An Honest Ledger

• Credit. Right window. Things that come in.
• My brother is at the left window. We keep a wall between us for tax reasons.

• Everything is in balance. Do not check. It will stop being true.
• Sell at the bid and it goes now. Ask for more and you wait. Waiting is free. Mostly.
• Smile. The ledger likes it when you smile.

• Requests? I take requests. I do not take them well, but I take them.
• I know four songs. Three of them are this one.

• I played at the Exchange once. The clerks applauded by rustling.
• The hat's for gems. The second hat is for the first hat.
• Tune's called 'The Red Road Home'. Everything here is called that.

• The Cathedral of Names. Every pillar is a list. Read one and you will find someone you knew.
• The crypt stairs go down to the Undercroft. The dead file their own paperwork there. Badly.

• Ring the bell once for the living, twice for the dead, three times for the Operator. He never comes.
• Something in the Undercroft keeps adding clauses to the walls. I scrub them off. It writes faster.
• Take a candle. Not for the dark. For the company.

GIVES Clauses On The Walls

• Just walking. Is that allowed? Nobody has told me it isn't.
• Nice evening. Red. Like every evening. I like a consistent sky.

• I live three doors down. Every door on the lane is three doors down. Funny place.
• Some nights the moon is the right size. Tonight it isn't.
• I once walked to Saltgrave by accident. Took the wrong 'left'.

• Can't stop. Well. I can stop. I am stopping. But I shouldn't.
• Three errands, two legs. The maths has never worked.

• If you see Tallow, I was never here.
• The Exchange closes never. That is the problem. There is always one more thing.
• I run. Everybody else walks. We arrive at the same time. I do not understand this city.

• Every lamp on this road is mine. Not the light. The lamp. The light belongs to whoever is standing in it.
• Dusk at six. Dusk at seven. Honestly, dusk whenever I get there.

• A lit lamp is a promise. An unlit one is a question.
• Someone keeps lighting the lamps before I get there. I'd be grateful if I weren't unemployed.
• Lantern Path is mine too. Technically. Nobody's checked.

• Evening. Or morning. The clock says morning. It always says morning.

• Keep to the lamps. The Watch can only protect what it can see, and it cannot see very much.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.
• Down here the ore is honest. It is the only thing that is.

• East gate. Ashfield beyond. It gets worse after that, in a pleasing order.

• Ashfield first. Then Whisperwood. Then you will want armour, and I will want you to have it.
• We guard the city from what comes up the road. Nobody guards the road from what comes up out of the ground.

GIVES The East Road

• Bandages, tonics, scrolls. Prices are higher down here. So are you, in a sense. Lower. You know what I mean.

• I do not go up. Up is where the debts are.
• Buy a Waypoint Scroll. The walk back is longer than you remember.

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• Ash in the morning. Ash at noon. Ash at night. I sweep. The ash is patient. So am I.
• Mind the pile. It took me an hour and it is the best thing I own.

• You'd think ash would stop. It doesn't stop.
• The broom was my mother's. The ash was everybody's.
• Step round the pile. Please. Please step round the pile.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.
• Down here the ore is honest. It is the only thing that is.

• Ash in the boots, ash in the bread. You get used to it. You get used to everything here.
• Every house on this road is somebody's. This one is mine. The door is open because the latch never was.

• Every house on this road is somebody's. This one is mine. The door is open because the latch never was.
• Walk through if you like. Everybody does. The road goes in one door and out the other.
• ASHFIELD. Population: a few. Enthusiasm: none. The fires stopped. The smell did not.
• Still warm. The oil is fresh. Nobody has been down that shaft in fifty years, according to everyone.

• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.
• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.
• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.
• ASHFIELD. Population: a few. Enthusiasm: none. The fires stopped. The smell did not.

• Lumen sent me down to light the bottom. I have been lighting it ever since. It keeps going out. So do I.

• Up at the Roost they say the third way is sideways, into the margin. Down here I think the margin is everywhere.
• If you find a lamp with no oil, leave it. It is one of mine.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.
• Down here the ore is honest. It is the only thing that is.

• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.
• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.
• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.
• MINE WORKINGS. Shafts unmarked. Unmarked shafts unmarked. Watch your step.

• Ash in the boots, ash in the bread. You get used to it. You get used to everything here.

• The ash is not snow. Do not make an angel.
• Still warm. The oil is fresh. Nobody has been down that shaft in fifty years, according to everyone.

• The chapel burned. The bell did not. That is the whole sermon.
• Sit wherever you like. The pews are all spoken for, but the dead are polite.

• Ashfield was the first place Endsville tried to be kind. It did not go well. We still light a candle.
• The Bell Cellars are under Soot End now. The bell moved. Bells do that, if you let them ring long enough.
• Whatever you take from the ruins, leave a little. The ruins notice arithmetic.

GIVES Do Not Let It Ring

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.
• Down here the ore is honest. It is the only thing that is.

• Just walking. Is that allowed? Nobody has told me it isn't.
• Nice evening. Red. Like every evening. I like a consistent sky.

• I live three doors down. Every door on the lane is three doors down. Funny place.
• Some nights the moon is the right size. Tonight it isn't.
• I once walked to Saltgrave by accident. Took the wrong 'left'.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.
• Down here the ore is honest. It is the only thing that is.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.
• Down here the ore is honest. It is the only thing that is.

• Ash in the boots, ash in the bread. You get used to it. You get used to everything here.
• Beds upstairs, stew downstairs, gossip everywhere. Mind the third step. It owes me money.

• Beds upstairs, stew downstairs, gossip everywhere. Mind the third step. It owes me money.
• Travellers come through here going east. Fewer come back west. The ones who do eat twice.
• GIBBET HILL: east. The hill is disappointed in you already.
• Most of it burned. What is left: '...so we signed again. What else could we do? The children needed a floor.'

• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.
• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.
• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.
• GIBBET HILL: east. The hill is disappointed in you already.

• Ash in the boots, ash in the bread. You get used to it. You get used to everything here.
• Every house on this road is somebody's. This one is mine. The door is open because the latch never was.

• Every house on this road is somebody's. This one is mine. The door is open because the latch never was.
• Walk through if you like. Everybody does. The road goes in one door and out the other.
• GIBBET HILL: east. The hill is disappointed in you already.
• Still warm. The oil is fresh. Nobody has been down that shaft in fifty years, according to everyone.

• Late. Late. Sorry - late. Do you know a shortcut? No? Me neither. Late.
• Letters for the Exchange. Letters for the Deed Office. One letter for a dog. Do not ask.

• Letter for someone called 'Occupant'. Everybody's an occupant. I'll deliver it to all of you.
• The Long Pier doesn't end. Try delivering to the end of the Long Pier.
• Have you seen a small brass key? Not mine. Just wondering.

• Soot End mine. Bring a pick, bring a lamp, bring a reason.
• Digger runs the real seam through the quarry door. I run the cage. The cage is harder than you think.

• Ash on the surface is just the top of it. The mine goes down further than the map does.
• I keep a tally of who goes down and who comes up. The numbers have not matched since spring. I stopped counting.
• If you hear tapping from inside the wall, tap back twice. Do not tap a third time.
• The Foundry says we should dig until we reach the Underwriter and send it a bill. I say dig until lunch.

GIVES Pit Cage Duties

• Late. Late. Sorry - late. Do you know a shortcut? No? Me neither. Late.
• Letters for the Exchange. Letters for the Deed Office. One letter for a dog. Do not ask.

• Letter for someone called 'Occupant'. Everybody's an occupant. I'll deliver it to all of you.
• The Long Pier doesn't end. Try delivering to the end of the Long Pier.
• Have you seen a small brass key? Not mine. Just wondering.

• Lamps? No. Rope, bandages, tonics, scrolls. The lamps are free. The light costs extra.

• Sell me your iron, your silver, your gravel. I sell it back to the mine. The mine never notices.

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GIVES The Weeping Seam

• Cough twice. Again. Again. You are fine. Everybody in Ashfield is fine. The coughing is local colour.

• Bandages and tonics from Tally. Rest from me. Ash from everywhere.

• Just walking. Is that allowed? Nobody has told me it isn't.
• Nice evening. Red. Like every evening. I like a consistent sky.

• I live three doors down. Every door on the lane is three doors down. Funny place.
• Some nights the moon is the right size. Tonight it isn't.
• I once walked to Saltgrave by accident. Took the wrong 'left'.

• Master sent me out for 'a long weight'. I've been waiting all day. ...Oh.
• I'm learning. Slowly. The slow part is the learning.

• Smithing's hard. The iron doesn't want to be a bar. I get it. Neither do I.
• Master says: 'Measure twice.' I measure eleven times. It's still wrong.
• Cooking next week. The cauldron has been warned.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.
• Down here the ore is honest. It is the only thing that is.

• No train has run in years. I still keep the timetable.
• If a train comes, I will be ready. If it does not, I will also be ready.

• The rail went east to Cinderreach. The rails are still there. The train is in the Bell Cellars, in pieces, ringing.

GIVES The Black Rail Timetable

• Ash in the boots, ash in the bread. You get used to it. You get used to everything here.

• The ash is not snow. Do not make an angel.
• Still warm. The oil is fresh. Nobody has been down that shaft in fifty years, according to everyone.

• Master sent me out for 'a long weight'. I've been waiting all day. ...Oh.
• I'm learning. Slowly. The slow part is the learning.

• Smithing's hard. The iron doesn't want to be a bar. I get it. Neither do I.
• Master says: 'Measure twice.' I measure eleven times. It's still wrong.
• Cooking next week. The cauldron has been warned.

• Bandages, tonics, scrolls. Prices are higher down here. So are you, in a sense. Lower. You know what I mean.

• I do not go up. Up is where the debts are.
• Buy a Waypoint Scroll. The walk back is longer than you remember.

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• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.
• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.
• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.
• The ash is not snow. Do not make an angel.

• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.
• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.
• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.
• MINE WORKINGS. Shafts unmarked. Unmarked shafts unmarked. Watch your step.

• Do not mind me. I am resting. I have been resting for some time.
• Sit. The view is free. The silence is also free.

• From here you can see the city, the trees, and the smoke of Cinderreach. I have never gone to check any of them.
• The hounds are not hunting you. They are herding you. Toward what, I could not say.

GIVES The Herding

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.
• Down here the ore is honest. It is the only thing that is.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.
• Down here the ore is honest. It is the only thing that is.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.
• Down here the ore is honest. It is the only thing that is.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.
• Down here the ore is honest. It is the only thing that is.

• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.
• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.
• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.
• MINE WORKINGS. Shafts unmarked. Unmarked shafts unmarked. Watch your step.

• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.
• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.
• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.
• ASHFIELD. Population: a few. Enthusiasm: none. The fires stopped. The smell did not.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.
• Down here the ore is honest. It is the only thing that is.

• Ash in the boots, ash in the bread. You get used to it. You get used to everything here.
• Beds upstairs, stew downstairs, gossip everywhere. Mind the third step. It owes me money.

• Beds upstairs, stew downstairs, gossip everywhere. Mind the third step. It owes me money.
• Travellers come through here going east. Fewer come back west. The ones who do eat twice.
• MINE WORKINGS. Shafts unmarked. Unmarked shafts unmarked. Watch your step.
• A post scratched with numbers, each crossed out and replaced by a higher one. The last is your age.

• Ash in the boots, ash in the bread. You get used to it. You get used to everything here.
• The soil out here does what it likes. I plant what it likes. We get along.

• The soil out here does what it likes. I plant what it likes. We get along.
• Something walks the rows at night. It never takes anything. It just checks.
• ASHFIELD. Population: a few. Enthusiasm: none. The fires stopped. The smell did not.
• A post scratched with numbers, each crossed out and replaced by a higher one. The last is your age.

• Shh. The trees are counting. If they lose count they start again from you.
• Every house on this road is somebody's. This one is mine. The door is open because the latch never was.

• Every house on this road is somebody's. This one is mine. The door is open because the latch never was.
• Walk through if you like. Everybody does. The road goes in one door and out the other.
• THE CANOPY: up. Everything good in this wood is up.
• A perfect circle of mushrooms. The grass inside is flattened, as if something small held a meeting about you.

• ...you came all the way down. ...down. ...down.

• I repeat things. It is the only job left at the bottom. ...bottom.
• The Underwriter's Desk. ...Desk. East. ...East.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.
• Down here the ore is honest. It is the only thing that is.

• The wood does not admit strangers. It will admit a person with a shrine. Touch it.

• The Canopy is east. Look up when you get there. Everyone forgets to look up.

GIVES Introductions

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.
• Down here the ore is honest. It is the only thing that is.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.
• Down here the ore is honest. It is the only thing that is.

• Have you heard? No? Good. I'll go first.
• I know everything that happens on this street. Half of it is even true.

• Clerk Debit and Clerk Credit haven't spoken in nine years. The wall between them is load-bearing.
• Someone saw a light in the Lower Ledger with nobody holding it. Someone always sees that.
• The Operator was on the street last night. Or a very tall lamp. Hard to say.
• Mandy's gem counts are never wrong. That is the single most frightening fact I know.

• Quiet. The trees are deciding about you.
• I grow what the forest lets me. I brew what the forest does not notice. Tea?

• Whisperwood speaks in a language of creaks. After a year you pick up three words. Mine are 'leave', 'stay' and 'later'.
• The mushroom rings are doors. Not for you. For the smaller residents. Do not step in.
• Rotwood Hollow is under the great trunk. The wood rots from the heart out. The heart is still beating.

GIVES Willow For The Wounded

• I am walking to the far edge of the map. I hear it is not finished. I want to see what unfinished looks like.
• Every stone on this road has been stepped on by somebody who was also lost.

• Homestead, Ashfield, the Hollow, the Coast. Then the Edge. Then I'll turn round and do it in the other order.
• The waystones only take you where you've been. That's not travel. That's memory with a bus pass.
• Carry water. Carry bread. Carry a reason.

• Rope, bait, bandages, scrolls. All carried up by hand. Prices reflect the climb.

• I buy timber, hides, anything the forest lets go of.

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• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.
• Down here the ore is honest. It is the only thing that is.

• Welcome to the Canopy. We live up here because the ground keeps asking for rent.

• The Lamplighters taught us: the Deed covers what is on the line. A tree is a line going up. We sit at the top of it.
• Ride the Rope Lift. It creaks. That is it saying hello.

GIVES Look Up

• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.
• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.
• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.
• THE CANOPY: up. Everything good in this wood is up.

• The rooks report to me. I report to nobody. It is a good arrangement.

• Six bats in the tunnel under the roots. They are not rooks. The rooks are offended by the confusion.

GIVES The Tunnel Of Rooks

• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.
• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.
• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.
• If a tree asks your name, give the Deed Office's address.

• I am walking to the far edge of the map. I hear it is not finished. I want to see what unfinished looks like.
• Every stone on this road has been stepped on by somebody who was also lost.

• Homestead, Ashfield, the Hollow, the Coast. Then the Edge. Then I'll turn round and do it in the other order.
• The waystones only take you where you've been. That's not travel. That's memory with a bus pass.
• Carry water. Carry bread. Carry a reason.

• Bandages, tonics, scrolls. Prices are higher down here. So are you, in a sense. Lower. You know what I mean.

• I do not go up. Up is where the debts are.
• Buy a Waypoint Scroll. The walk back is longer than you remember.

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• You came all the way down. Sit. Nobody here wants anything from you. That is the whole point of the place.

• We read the blank. It says nothing. We are on page one. We have been for some time.
• The Underwriter has a desk out east of here. It writes and writes. Nothing it writes stays.
• Ride the Long Drop up when you want to be owed something again.

• Lodge rules: skin what you kill, thank what you cannot, and never whistle after dark.
• The Hollow Wilds start behind the lodge door. Fen teaches there. I keep the porch.

• Stag tracks near the creek. Big ones. Bigger than the stags.
• If you see a lantern moving alone between the trees, it is mine. Probably.

GIVES The Standing Order

• Shh. The trees are counting. If they lose count they start again from you.

• The trees are listening. Say something nice. Not too nice. They get suspicious.
• Antlers nailed to a trunk, each tine with a name. The newest tine has no name yet. It curves toward you.

• I am walking to the far edge of the map. I hear it is not finished. I want to see what unfinished looks like.
• Every stone on this road has been stepped on by somebody who was also lost.

• Homestead, Ashfield, the Hollow, the Coast. Then the Edge. Then I'll turn round and do it in the other order.
• The waystones only take you where you've been. That's not travel. That's memory with a bus pass.
• Carry water. Carry bread. Carry a reason.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.
• Down here the ore is honest. It is the only thing that is.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.
• Down here the ore is honest. It is the only thing that is.

• Have you heard? No? Good. I'll go first.
• I know everything that happens on this street. Half of it is even true.

• Clerk Debit and Clerk Credit haven't spoken in nine years. The wall between them is load-bearing.
• Someone saw a light in the Lower Ledger with nobody holding it. Someone always sees that.
• The Operator was on the street last night. Or a very tall lamp. Hard to say.
• Mandy's gem counts are never wrong. That is the single most frightening fact I know.

• Shh. The trees are counting. If they lose count they start again from you.

• The trees are listening. Say something nice. Not too nice. They get suspicious.
• Antlers nailed to a trunk, each tine with a name. The newest tine has no name yet. It curves toward you.

• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.
• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.
• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.
• The Chasm is watching. The forge is watching the Chasm. You are being supervised.

• Hot work, slow pay, good company. Two out of three.
• Beds upstairs, stew downstairs, gossip everywhere. Mind the third step. It owes me money.

• Beds upstairs, stew downstairs, gossip everywhere. Mind the third step. It owes me money.
• Travellers come through here going east. Fewer come back west. The ones who do eat twice.
• The Chasm is watching. The forge is watching the Chasm. You are being supervised.
• Soot letters on a furnace door: 'Burn what we owe. Leave what we are.'

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.
• Down here the ore is honest. It is the only thing that is.

• Master sent me out for 'a long weight'. I've been waiting all day. ...Oh.
• I'm learning. Slowly. The slow part is the learning.

• Smithing's hard. The iron doesn't want to be a bar. I get it. Neither do I.
• Master says: 'Measure twice.' I measure eleven times. It's still wrong.
• Cooking next week. The cauldron has been warned.

• Master sent me out for 'a long weight'. I've been waiting all day. ...Oh.
• I'm learning. Slowly. The slow part is the learning.

• Smithing's hard. The iron doesn't want to be a bar. I get it. Neither do I.
• Master says: 'Measure twice.' I measure eleven times. It's still wrong.
• Cooking next week. The cauldron has been warned.

• Fort Ember. Held nothing for forty years. Holding it now.

• Skeletons walk up out of the Chasm at night. We push them back in. They take it personally.

GIVES Push Them Back

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.
• Down here the ore is honest. It is the only thing that is.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.
• Down here the ore is honest. It is the only thing that is.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.
• Down here the ore is honest. It is the only thing that is.

• Cinderreach. We made the tools that made the city. Then the fire asked for payment.
• The Foundry means to dig to the Underwriter and hand it an invoice. We are most of the way. The last bit is the hard bit.

• Hellfire ruby lies at the bottom of the Chasm. So does most of my crew. Go carefully. Or go rich. Or both, in that order.
• Bars first, then blades. Nobody respects a blade made from ore.
• The Clerks want the Deed renewed. The Unsigned want it torn. The Foundry wants it audited.

GIVES The Invoice

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.
• Down here the ore is honest. It is the only thing that is.

• I feed the ones that remain. There are more than you would think.
• Bread from slag-flour. Do not ask. Eat.

• Every chimney in Cinderreach has a name on it. I know them all. I will not say them.
• If you climb the stacks, bring a lamp. The top is darker than the inside.

• Tonics for the burns, bandages for the rest, scrolls for the way home.

• I buy bars. I buy ore. I buy the things you find at the bottom of the Chasm and do not want to talk about.

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GIVES Bars For The Fence

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.
• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.
• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.
• The Chasm is watching. The forge is watching the Chasm. You are being supervised.

• Hot work, slow pay, good company. Two out of three.
• Beds upstairs, stew downstairs, gossip everywhere. Mind the third step. It owes me money.

• Beds upstairs, stew downstairs, gossip everywhere. Mind the third step. It owes me money.
• Travellers come through here going east. Fewer come back west. The ones who do eat twice.
• The Chasm is watching. The forge is watching the Chasm. You are being supervised.
• A key slumped into a puddle of iron. Whatever it opened, it opened it from the inside.

• Bandages, tonics, scrolls. Prices are higher down here. So are you, in a sense. Lower. You know what I mean.

• I do not go up. Up is where the debts are.
• Buy a Waypoint Scroll. The walk back is longer than you remember.

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• Bandages, tonics, scrolls. Prices are higher down here. So are you, in a sense. Lower. You know what I mean.

• I do not go up. Up is where the debts are.
• Buy a Waypoint Scroll. The walk back is longer than you remember.

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• Master sent me out for 'a long weight'. I've been waiting all day. ...Oh.
• I'm learning. Slowly. The slow part is the learning.

• Smithing's hard. The iron doesn't want to be a bar. I get it. Neither do I.
• Master says: 'Measure twice.' I measure eleven times. It's still wrong.
• Cooking next week. The cauldron has been warned.

• Hot work, slow pay, good company. Two out of three.
• Every house on this road is somebody's. This one is mine. The door is open because the latch never was.

• Every house on this road is somebody's. This one is mine. The door is open because the latch never was.
• Walk through if you like. Everybody does. The road goes in one door and out the other.
• DANGER: HOT. DANGER: VERY HOT. DANGER: you get the idea.
• Soot letters on a furnace door: 'Burn what we owe. Leave what we are.'

• The road runs from under the sea to under the Last Page. I have walked it twice. It was the same road both times. That is unusual, here.

• Reapers walk the road in twos. Skeletons in threes. Brutes alone. Count, then run.
• Shard stairs go up from the road. Things get left on top. I do not know who leaves them. Maybe you, later.

• Master sent me out for 'a long weight'. I've been waiting all day. ...Oh.
• I'm learning. Slowly. The slow part is the learning.

• Smithing's hard. The iron doesn't want to be a bar. I get it. Neither do I.
• Master says: 'Measure twice.' I measure eleven times. It's still wrong.
• Cooking next week. The cauldron has been warned.

• Hold it. State your business.
• ...Oh. You are a visitor. Go on. Nobody ever states a business. I just like saying it.

• I guard the ridge. There is nothing on the ridge. That is why it needs guarding.
• If you fall in the Chasm, there is a ladder on each side. Yes, both sides. I built them. Out of spite.

GIVES Not My Bill

• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.
• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.
• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.
• Slag heaps are not hills. Do not picnic.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.
• Down here the ore is honest. It is the only thing that is.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.
• Down here the ore is honest. It is the only thing that is.

• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.
• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.
• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.
• Smokestack Ridge: climb for the view. The view climbs back.

• Hot work, slow pay, good company. Two out of three.
• Beds upstairs, stew downstairs, gossip everywhere. Mind the third step. It owes me money.

• Beds upstairs, stew downstairs, gossip everywhere. Mind the third step. It owes me money.
• Travellers come through here going east. Fewer come back west. The ones who do eat twice.
• Smokestack Ridge: climb for the view. The view climbs back.
• A blade left on an anvil mid-strike. The hammer is still raised, on its own, waiting for permission.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.
• Down here the ore is honest. It is the only thing that is.

• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.
• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.
• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.
• Slag heaps are not hills. Do not picnic.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.
• Down here the ore is honest. It is the only thing that is.

• A verse for a gem. A gem for a verse. We are both wasting our time, but beautifully.
• I have written a poem about you. It is short. It is 'hm.'

• 'Red the sky and red the stone / and red the long road leading home.' Gem?
• I've been commissioned to write the Ledger's epitaph. It's taking a while. It isn't dead yet.
• Rhymes with 'Endsville': nothing. I checked. That's the whole poem.

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.
• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.
• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.
• THE BONEFIELDS. They were very big. They were very angry. They are very still.

• No name, no debt. The Unsigned travel light.

• The Unsigned are welcome here. Everyone else is tolerated.
• Taller than you. A name is carved on it in letters a mile high, read up close. It is a clause number.

• No name, no debt. The Unsigned travel light.
• Every house on this road is somebody's. This one is mine. The door is open because the latch never was.

• Every house on this road is somebody's. This one is mine. The door is open because the latch never was.
• Walk through if you like. Everybody does. The road goes in one door and out the other.
• Do not take the bones. The bones keep count.
• Taller than you. A name is carved on it in letters a mile high, read up close. It is a clause number.

• The Spine Bridge. Toll: one secret. Whisper it to the bridge. It collects them.

• The bridge has heard ten thousand secrets. It has never repeated one. It hums sometimes.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.
• Down here the ore is honest. It is the only thing that is.

• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.
• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.
• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.
• Do not take the bones. The bones keep count.

• No name, no debt. The Unsigned travel light.

• OSSUARY HOLD, ahead. Knock on the third rib.
• A ledger of the giants' war. Both columns are headed 'us'.

• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.
• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.
• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.
• THE BONEFIELDS. They were very big. They were very angry. They are very still.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.
• Down here the ore is honest. It is the only thing that is.

• Ossuary Hold. We live in the giant's chest. It is warmer than you would think. It remembers being warm.

• The giants fought the first war over the Deed. Both sides lost. The Deed won.
• Knock on the third rib if you need a bed. Knock on the fourth if you need to leave quickly.

GIVES Names Of The Giants

• Bandages, tonics, rope, scrolls. No bones. We do not sell the residents.

• I buy hides, fangs, pelts. The giants do not mind. The giants are past minding.

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GIVES The Marrow Pits

• Mind the ribs. You can climb them. You can fall off them. Both are popular.

• Skeletons walk the Bonefields at night looking for their names. We point them at the Deed Office.

GIVES Looking For Their Names

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.
• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.
• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.
• Do not take the bones. The bones keep count.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.
• Down here the ore is honest. It is the only thing that is.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.
• Down here the ore is honest. It is the only thing that is.

• A verse for a gem. A gem for a verse. We are both wasting our time, but beautifully.
• I have written a poem about you. It is short. It is 'hm.'

• 'Red the sky and red the stone / and red the long road leading home.' Gem?
• I've been commissioned to write the Ledger's epitaph. It's taking a while. It isn't dead yet.
• Rhymes with 'Endsville': nothing. I checked. That's the whole poem.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.
• Down here the ore is honest. It is the only thing that is.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.
• Down here the ore is honest. It is the only thing that is.

• Ore for ore. Nothing for nothing. I am very fair.

• The deepest ore is out on the bridges, over nothing. Mind the edge. The nothing minds you.
• I came down to get away from the Deed. It followed me as far as the Small Print. It does not like the dark.

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.
• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.
• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.
• Do not take the bones. The bones keep count.

• I have no name on file. That is why I am still here. The Underwriter cannot collect what was never written down.
• The Clerks say the Deed holds the city up. I say it holds the city down. Tear it, and see what floats.

• Every name the Deed Office files is a name the Underwriter can take. Stop filing. Start living.
• The Unsigned are not outlaws. We are simply not on the list. It is very relaxing.
• Quill is not wicked. Quill is tired. Tired people sign things.
• If you ever reach the Last Page, you will be asked to sign. Think of me when you hold the pen.

GIVES Meet The Unsigned, Unfile Yourself

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.
• Down here the ore is honest. It is the only thing that is.

• No name, no debt. The Unsigned travel light.
• Every house on this road is somebody's. This one is mine. The door is open because the latch never was.

• Every house on this road is somebody's. This one is mine. The door is open because the latch never was.
• Walk through if you like. Everybody does. The road goes in one door and out the other.
• Do not take the bones. The bones keep count.
• A ledger of the giants' war. Both columns are headed 'us'.

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.
• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.
• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.
• Do not take the bones. The bones keep count.

• No name, no debt. The Unsigned travel light.

• THE BONEFIELDS. They were very big. They were very angry. They are very still.
• 'YOUR NAME IS YOURS. Do not file it. Do not lend it. Do not let them write it down.' Signed: nobody.

• A verse for a gem. A gem for a verse. We are both wasting our time, but beautifully.
• I have written a poem about you. It is short. It is 'hm.'

• 'Red the sky and red the stone / and red the long road leading home.' Gem?
• I've been commissioned to write the Ledger's epitaph. It's taking a while. It isn't dead yet.
• Rhymes with 'Endsville': nothing. I checked. That's the whole poem.

• Bandages, tonics, scrolls. Prices are higher down here. So are you, in a sense. Lower. You know what I mean.

• I do not go up. Up is where the debts are.
• Buy a Waypoint Scroll. The walk back is longer than you remember.

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• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.
• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.
• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.
• Do not take the bones. The bones keep count.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.
• Down here the ore is honest. It is the only thing that is.

• Step where I step. Not where I stepped. Where I step.

• Stiltwater, ahead. Ring before entering. Ring after leaving.
• Spectacles on a stilt. Through them, the mire is a library and every reed is a spine.

• Just walking. Is that allowed? Nobody has told me it isn't.
• Nice evening. Red. Like every evening. I like a consistent sky.

• I live three doors down. Every door on the lane is three doors down. Funny place.
• Some nights the moon is the right size. Tonight it isn't.
• I once walked to Saltgrave by accident. Took the wrong 'left'.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.
• Down here the ore is honest. It is the only thing that is.

• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.
• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.
• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.
• The Chapterhouse sank with its readers still reading. They are on chapter nine.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.
• Down here the ore is honest. It is the only thing that is.

• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.
• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.
• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.
• Stiltwater, ahead. Ring before entering. Ring after leaving.

• Step where I step. Not where I stepped. Where I step.
• Every house on this road is somebody's. This one is mine. The door is open because the latch never was.

• Every house on this road is somebody's. This one is mine. The door is open because the latch never was.
• Walk through if you like. Everybody does. The road goes in one door and out the other.
• Stiltwater, ahead. Ring before entering. Ring after leaving.
• A lantern woven from lily stems, lit by something under the water. It goes out when you look away.

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.
• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.
• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.
• Do not fish for what is under the lilies. It is fishing for you.

• Have you heard? No? Good. I'll go first.
• I know everything that happens on this street. Half of it is even true.

• Clerk Debit and Clerk Credit haven't spoken in nine years. The wall between them is load-bearing.
• Someone saw a light in the Lower Ledger with nobody holding it. Someone always sees that.
• The Operator was on the street last night. Or a very tall lamp. Hard to say.
• Mandy's gem counts are never wrong. That is the single most frightening fact I know.

• Stiltwater. We live above the mire because the mire is reading below it.

• The Chapterhouse sank with its readers still reading. They are on chapter nine.
• Do not fish for what is under the lilies. It is fishing for you.
• The Salt Wardens think the sea drowned the old city. It did not. The mire did. The sea only kept it.

GIVES What Is Under The Lilies

• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.
• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.
• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.
• Stay on the stilts. The mire keeps what it takes. It is a good keeper.

• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.
• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.
• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.
• Do not fish for what is under the lilies. It is fishing for you.

• Rope, bandages, tonics, scrolls. All kept dry. Mostly.

• I buy fish. The violet ones glow in the dark for a week. Very popular with the Canopy.

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• Across the pool? Walk the boards. The ferry has not floated since the water turned violet.

• I pole the dark between the stilts. Something under the boat taps back. Two taps. I do not tap three.

• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.
• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.
• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.
• Do not fish for what is under the lilies. It is fishing for you.

• Have you heard? No? Good. I'll go first.
• I know everything that happens on this street. Half of it is even true.

• Clerk Debit and Clerk Credit haven't spoken in nine years. The wall between them is load-bearing.
• Someone saw a light in the Lower Ledger with nobody holding it. Someone always sees that.
• The Operator was on the street last night. Or a very tall lamp. Hard to say.
• Mandy's gem counts are never wrong. That is the single most frightening fact I know.

• I watch the water. The water watches the sky. Nobody watches me. Ideal.

• Brutes wade the deep pools at dusk. Stay on the boards. They do not climb. Yet.

GIVES Waders

• Lumen sent me down to light the bottom. I have been lighting it ever since. It keeps going out. So do I.

• Up at the Roost they say the third way is sideways, into the margin. Down here I think the margin is everywhere.
• If you find a lamp with no oil, leave it. It is one of mine.

• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.
• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.
• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.
• Stay on the stilts. The mire keeps what it takes. It is a good keeper.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.
• Down here the ore is honest. It is the only thing that is.

• Step where I step. Not where I stepped. Where I step.
• Beds upstairs, stew downstairs, gossip everywhere. Mind the third step. It owes me money.

• Beds upstairs, stew downstairs, gossip everywhere. Mind the third step. It owes me money.
• Travellers come through here going east. Fewer come back west. The ones who do eat twice.
• THE VEILMIRE. The water is violet. The water is deep. The water is reading over your shoulder.
• Page 9 of a book that sank. Every line ends mid-word. The ink is still running, slowly, toward the end.

• Chapter nine. I am on chapter nine. The others are on chapter nine. The thing below is on chapter ten.

• Do not let it read ahead. If it finishes the book, the book finishes us.
• The book is the Deed. The first draft. Before the clauses. Before the Underwriter. Before the price.

GIVES Chapter Ten

• Step where I step. Not where I stepped. Where I step.

• THE VEILMIRE. The water is violet. The water is deep. The water is reading over your shoulder.
• Spectacles on a stilt. Through them, the mire is a library and every reed is a spine.

• Step where I step. Not where I stepped. Where I step.
• Every house on this road is somebody's. This one is mine. The door is open because the latch never was.

• Every house on this road is somebody's. This one is mine. The door is open because the latch never was.
• Walk through if you like. Everybody does. The road goes in one door and out the other.
• THE VEILMIRE. The water is violet. The water is deep. The water is reading over your shoulder.
• Spectacles on a stilt. Through them, the mire is a library and every reed is a spine.

• Bandages, tonics, scrolls. Prices are higher down here. So are you, in a sense. Lower. You know what I mean.

• I do not go up. Up is where the debts are.
• Buy a Waypoint Scroll. The walk back is longer than you remember.

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• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.
• Down here the ore is honest. It is the only thing that is.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.
• Down here the ore is honest. It is the only thing that is.

• He's down in the Lower Ledger. Not dead - working. Though at those rates, both.
• I take the long way home. The short way has opinions.

• Married a miner. Got a lot of quiet.
• Bring a torch if you go under. Bring two. Bring somebody who'll come back for you.
• The Ash Chapel says prayers go up. In this wind, they go sideways.

• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.
• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.
• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.
• HIGHWATCH: up the pass. Keep climbing. Keep breathing. In that order.

• The pass goes up. Everything here goes up. Even the snow, when the wind is right.

• Rope climbs on the cliffs. Hold on with both hands. Talk with neither.
• Highwatch keeps the pass. The glacier keeps everything else, and it does not give things back.

GIVES Up The Pass

• I am walking to the far edge of the map. I hear it is not finished. I want to see what unfinished looks like.
• Every stone on this road has been stepped on by somebody who was also lost.

• Homestead, Ashfield, the Hollow, the Coast. Then the Edge. Then I'll turn round and do it in the other order.
• The waystones only take you where you've been. That's not travel. That's memory with a bus pass.
• Carry water. Carry bread. Carry a reason.

• Up is the only direction worth the breath.
• Every house on this road is somebody's. This one is mine. The door is open because the latch never was.

• Every house on this road is somebody's. This one is mine. The door is open because the latch never was.
• Walk through if you like. Everybody does. The road goes in one door and out the other.
• FROSTGATE. The air is thin. The patience is thinner.
• Scratched into the summit stone: a name. The Deed Office has no record of it. It may be the only free name left.

• Up is the only direction worth the breath.

• Avalanche country. Shouting is permitted. It is not advised.
• A small bell rung at every death on the pass. Its tongue is worn to a whisper.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.
• Down here the ore is honest. It is the only thing that is.

• Up is the only direction worth the breath.
• Beds upstairs, stew downstairs, gossip everywhere. Mind the third step. It owes me money.

• Beds upstairs, stew downstairs, gossip everywhere. Mind the third step. It owes me money.
• Travellers come through here going east. Fewer come back west. The ones who do eat twice.
• HIGHWATCH: up the pass. Keep climbing. Keep breathing. In that order.
• Scratched into the summit stone: a name. The Deed Office has no record of it. It may be the only free name left.

• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.
• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.
• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.
• The glacier moves one tile a century. It is in no hurry. Neither is the cold.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.
• Down here the ore is honest. It is the only thing that is.

• Welcome to Highwatch. We pray for the names nobody remembers. It is a long list. It is a long winter.

• Our abbot walked into the ice to pray and did not come out. The ice kept the prayer. The abbot kept walking.
• From the Summit you can read the Deed's last line, written along the sky. Do not read it aloud.

GIVES The Abbot's Prayer

• I ring the bell for every death on the pass. Its tongue is worn to a whisper.

• I rang it for the Operator once. Someone rang back from the east. We do not speak of it.

GIVES The Highest Name

• Tonics, bandages, rope, scrolls. Prices are high. So is the shop.

• I buy ore and hides. The monastery needs both. Prayer is cold work.

SELLS Waypoint Scroll (30g), Linen Bandage (10g), Grave Tonic (30g), Rope (10g), Snare Kit (15g), Grub Bait (5g)

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.
• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.
• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.
• HIGHWATCH: up the pass. Keep climbing. Keep breathing. In that order.

• ...you came all the way down. ...down. ...down.

• I repeat things. It is the only job left at the bottom. ...bottom.
• The Underwriter's Desk. ...Desk. East. ...East.

• Bandages, tonics, scrolls. Prices are higher down here. So are you, in a sense. Lower. You know what I mean.

• I do not go up. Up is where the debts are.
• Buy a Waypoint Scroll. The walk back is longer than you remember.

SELLS Waypoint Scroll (30g), Linen Bandage (10g), Grave Tonic (30g), Rope (10g), Snare Kit (15g), Grub Bait (5g)

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.
• Down here the ore is honest. It is the only thing that is.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.
• Down here the ore is honest. It is the only thing that is.

• Up is the only direction worth the breath.
• Beds upstairs, stew downstairs, gossip everywhere. Mind the third step. It owes me money.

• Beds upstairs, stew downstairs, gossip everywhere. Mind the third step. It owes me money.
• Travellers come through here going east. Fewer come back west. The ones who do eat twice.
• HIGHWATCH: up the pass. Keep climbing. Keep breathing. In that order.
• Scratched into the summit stone: a name. The Deed Office has no record of it. It may be the only free name left.

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.
• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.
• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.
• THE SUMMIT: the highest ground in Endsville. The Deed's last line is visible from the top.

• Every lamp on this road is mine. Not the light. The lamp. The light belongs to whoever is standing in it.
• Dusk at six. Dusk at seven. Honestly, dusk whenever I get there.

• A lit lamp is a promise. An unlit one is a question.
• Someone keeps lighting the lamps before I get there. I'd be grateful if I weren't unemployed.
• Lantern Path is mine too. Technically. Nobody's checked.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.
• Down here the ore is honest. It is the only thing that is.

• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.
• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.
• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.
• HIGHWATCH: up the pass. Keep climbing. Keep breathing. In that order.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.
• Down here the ore is honest. It is the only thing that is.

• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.
• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.
• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.
• The ground is red because the paper is running out.

• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.
• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.
• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.
• The ground is red because the paper is running out.

• I came to see the end of the world. It keeps getting further away.
• Beds upstairs, stew downstairs, gossip everywhere. Mind the third step. It owes me money.

• Beds upstairs, stew downstairs, gossip everywhere. Mind the third step. It owes me money.
• Travellers come through here going east. Fewer come back west. The ones who do eat twice.
• THE LAST PAGE. Beyond this point the map is a rumour.
• 'For world, read word. For word, read world. Apologies for any inconvenience.'

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.
• Down here the ore is honest. It is the only thing that is.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.
• Down here the ore is honest. It is the only thing that is.

• I came to see the end of the world. It keeps getting further away.
• Every house on this road is somebody's. This one is mine. The door is open because the latch never was.

• Every house on this road is somebody's. This one is mine. The door is open because the latch never was.
• Walk through if you like. Everybody does. The road goes in one door and out the other.
• The Operator's Spire: east. He is in. He is always in. He is never available.
• Clean paper, warm, waiting. Something is about to be written here. It might be you.

• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.
• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.
• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.
• THE LAST PAGE. Beyond this point the map is a rumour.

• The Errata. Corrections to the world, issued daily. Some are fatal. Most are typographical.

• For 'world' read 'word'. For 'word' read 'world'. Apologies for any inconvenience.
• The Final Draft is under the outpost. Something down there is still writing. It writes with a hand.

GIVES Issue A Correction

• [REDACTED]. Sorry. Habit. What did you want to know? [REDACTED].

• Every Endsville before this one ended at the Last Page. We black out the details. It is kinder.

GIVES [REDACTED]

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.
• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.
• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.
• THE LAST PAGE. Beyond this point the map is a rumour.

• Tonics, bandages, scrolls. The last ones before the edge. Prices reflect the scenery.

• I buy everything. Nothing is worth much this close to the end. Everything is worth something.

SELLS Waypoint Scroll (30g), Linen Bandage (10g), Grave Tonic (30g), Rope (10g), Snare Kit (15g), Grub Bait (5g)

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.
• Down here the ore is honest. It is the only thing that is.

• I am mapping the edge. It keeps moving. Every time someone arrives, the paper grows an inch.

• Beyond the Spire the map is blank. Not empty. Blank. Waiting.

GIVES The Edge Of The Paper

• Bandages, tonics, scrolls. Prices are higher down here. So are you, in a sense. Lower. You know what I mean.

• I do not go up. Up is where the debts are.
• Buy a Waypoint Scroll. The walk back is longer than you remember.

SELLS Waypoint Scroll (30g), Linen Bandage (10g), Grave Tonic (30g), Rope (10g), Snare Kit (15g), Grub Bait (5g)

• Bandages, tonics, scrolls. Prices are higher down here. So are you, in a sense. Lower. You know what I mean.

• I do not go up. Up is where the debts are.
• Buy a Waypoint Scroll. The walk back is longer than you remember.

SELLS Waypoint Scroll (30g), Linen Bandage (10g), Grave Tonic (30g), Rope (10g), Snare Kit (15g), Grub Bait (5g)

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.
• Down here the ore is honest. It is the only thing that is.

• I came to see the end of the world. It keeps getting further away.

• The Operator's Spire: east. He is in. He is always in. He is never available.
• Cold coffee in a mug that says WORLD'S BEST OPERATOR. The O has been crossed out and replaced with an A.

• You came all the way down. Sit. Nobody here wants anything from you. That is the whole point of the place.

• We read the blank. It says nothing. We are on page one. We have been for some time.
• The Underwriter has a desk out east of here. It writes and writes. Nothing it writes stays.
• Ride the Long Drop up when you want to be owed something again.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.
• Down here the ore is honest. It is the only thing that is.

• Oh. You made it. Most people stop at the Errata. Sit. The coffee is cold. It has been cold since the first morning.
• The Deed comes due. You can renew it, like the Clerks want. You can tear it, like the Unsigned want. Or...

• There is a third way. It is in the margins. Find all the fragments and you will know it as well as I do.
• I said I would fix it by morning. I am still fixing it. It is a very long morning.
• Renew, tear, or rewrite. I cannot choose for you. I am only the Operator. You are the one with your name on it.

GIVES Renew The Deed, Tear The Deed, Rewrite The Deed

• A verse for a gem. A gem for a verse. We are both wasting our time, but beautifully.
• I have written a poem about you. It is short. It is 'hm.'

• 'Red the sky and red the stone / and red the long road leading home.' Gem?
• I've been commissioned to write the Ledger's epitaph. It's taking a while. It isn't dead yet.
• Rhymes with 'Endsville': nothing. I checked. That's the whole poem.

• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.
• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.
• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.
• Do not read the small print on the rocks. It reads you back.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.
• Down here the ore is honest. It is the only thing that is.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.
• Down here the ore is honest. It is the only thing that is.

• A verse for a gem. A gem for a verse. We are both wasting our time, but beautifully.
• I have written a poem about you. It is short. It is 'hm.'

• 'Red the sky and red the stone / and red the long road leading home.' Gem?
• I've been commissioned to write the Ledger's epitaph. It's taking a while. It isn't dead yet.
• Rhymes with 'Endsville': nothing. I checked. That's the whole poem.

• I came to see the end of the world. It keeps getting further away.
• Beds upstairs, stew downstairs, gossip everywhere. Mind the third step. It owes me money.

• Beds upstairs, stew downstairs, gossip everywhere. Mind the third step. It owes me money.
• Travellers come through here going east. Fewer come back west. The ones who do eat twice.
• The Operator's Spire: east. He is in. He is always in. He is never available.
• 'For world, read word. For word, read world. Apologies for any inconvenience.'

• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.
• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.
• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.
• THE LAST PAGE. Beyond this point the map is a rumour.

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.

• Rent is cheaper down here. So is the air. Mind the ceiling.
• The street above never notices us. We like it that way.
• If you hear knocking in the walls, knock back. It is only polite.
• The Operator's Spire: east. He is in. He is always in. He is never available.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.

• Seam runs east. Follow the props. Do not follow the dripping.
• Down here the ore is honest. It is the only thing that is.