MATURE. Adults only. Every named and speaking character is an adult, with an age on the page: Wrenna Abel 24, Corvin Ashgrave 317, Maeve Abel 51, Osric Bay 63, Lissome Vane 240, Tam Rudd 39, Doctor Ivey Sarn 58, Brannoc 402, and Addy Rudd 19, remembered once and in no sexual role. The youngest is 19 and no minor exists in the book in any role, memory, or plan. Themes: a nine-year indenture signed in a mother's hand for nine hundred thalers; a drowned fen kingdom measured nightly in inches; a ledger with forty-one feet seven inches of record and one page left; candle tallow at three thalers a watch out of a cartographer's own fee; salt short eleven pounds a night; tin at forty thalers the hundredweight; a passage out of Kestrelmark at three hundred thalers; a rival who steals the record and prices her silence; a seamstress's tin box and a receipt dated the day a daughter turned twenty-one; and a clause sealed in wax that can be read aloud once and once only. Sexual content: Wrenna Abel 24 and Corvin Ashgrave 317 are adults and are not married to each other at any point. What each of them wants and what stops it is said out loud before anything begins in each of the three scenes, either of them can stop it at any point with one word, and the word is said once in the third scene and honoured immediately with no question afterwards. The scenes are written in full and specific to these two people and to one stone room under a cathedral stair. They are not rewards: the first costs Wrenna her clean hand in the Ledger, the second costs them the copy Lissome Vane is holding, and the third costs the sentence its ground. No civic choice and no ending is unlocked by any of them. Addy Rudd, 19, drowned at the old line and is remembered, never shown; no body, no method, and no death is depicted. No injury is depicted, no weapon appears, and no method of anything is described. No slur is written out. Fictional kingdom, court, fen, coinage, and people. All music is instrumental, vocal playback is disabled, and lyrics are empty.