The people, the places and the things of the book — and nothing you have not reached yet. A name you have not met is listed, so you know the list is whole, and left undescribed, so the book is still the book. 3 of these are still ahead of you. The first 9 scenes are free and need no account.
Who is in it, and what they are to each other.
The man this book follows. First met on a mountain path with his eyes bound, reading the ground through a wooden stick — not training his body so much as unlearning his reliance on sight. From San Juan.
Chapter I · THE ECHO OF THE ABYSS · Read that scene
The man Sals goes to when something will not resolve. He answers a question with a better one, and is unbothered by being asked for directions to a place with no road leading to it.
Chapter I · THE LANGUAGE OF REVELATION · Read that scene
Sals's closest friend, beside him at the training yard most mornings. Notices everything and says almost none of it, which is its own kind of loyalty.
Chapter I · THE FRAGRANCE OF THE SUN · Read that scene
You have not met this one yet. It is here so you know the list is whole — what it is stays in the book until you reach it.
Chapter II
One of two men who arrive from Mayaimi to ask Sals for help. He does the talking, and makes his offer plainly, without dressing it up.
Chapter I · THE AMBASSADORS OF MAYAIMI · Read that scene
The second man from Mayaimi. Blunter than Miguel, and the one who says out loud what they have come about — for them it is not a hire but survival.
Chapter I · THE AMBASSADORS OF MAYAIMI · Read that scene
Sals's horse. He hears the footsteps before they reach the door and lifts his head at a howl long before a man would. Sals rides him for his instincts, not his speed.
Chapter I · THE RHYTHM OF THE PULSE · Read that scene
You have not met this one yet. It is here so you know the list is whole — what it is stays in the book until you reach it.
Chapter II
Where it happens.
The city Sals is from. Cobblestones worn smooth by generations, balconies spilling lantern light, a training yard at its eastern edge where the packed earth gives way to farmland and then forest.
Chapter I · THE FRAGRANCE OF THE SUN · Read that scene
A coastal realm far to the west, and the city at its heart. Sals is invited to come and see it for himself, and told he is free to leave if he decides it is not his to carry.
Chapter I · THE AMBASSADORS OF MAYAIMI · Read that scene
What is carried, summoned and feared.
The name Mayaimi's envoys give the thing they have come about. Carlos says it with his voice tightening on the name, which tells you more than the name does.
Chapter I · THE AMBASSADORS OF MAYAIMI · Read that scene
You have not met this one yet. It is here so you know the list is whole — what it is stays in the book until you reach it.
Chapter IV