Sword Debt

Rowan believes duty must be witnessed, limited, and chosen; Crown Auditor Lucan Vey believes compulsory sacrifice is justified because hesitation once allowed a Bastion to fall. They inevitably collide over the Crown Ledger, which assigns hereditary

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Chapter 1: Seven Minutes of Law
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Chapter 2: The Note Beneath the Seal
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Chapter 3: Two Keys, One Liability
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Chapter 4: A Lawful Absence
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Chapter 5: The Interval on the Stair
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Chapter 6: The Route That Counted
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Chapter 7: Brass Keeps the Cut
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Chapter 8: Before the Fifth Bell
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Chapter 9: The Charge Entered
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Chapter 10: The Hour Beneath the Hour
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Chapter 11: The Space Left Empty
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Chapter 12: The Scar Before Recall
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Chapter 13: Borrowed Passage
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Chapter 14: Cold Glass, Filed Brass
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Chapter 15: Before the Next Measure
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Chapter 16: Camphor Below the Ward
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Chapter 17: The Name the Ward Owed
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Chapter 18: Two Bells, No Chit
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Chapter 19: The Surviving Fold
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Chapter 20: The Road into North Bell
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Chapter 21: The Cost Entered
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Chapter 22: The Second Permission
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Chapter 23: What the Arch Remembered
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Chapter 24: The Stroke That Never Sounded
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Chapter 25: What the Wax Remembered
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Chapter 26: A Name Without a Crime
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Chapter 27: The Bench That Answered
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Chapter 28: The Second Acceptance
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Chapter 29: What the Brass Concealed
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Chapter 30: What the Stores Kept
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Chapter 31: The Weight That Never Passed
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Chapter 32: A Clean Interval
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Chapter 33: The Objection Arrived First
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Chapter 34: Before the Wagon Came
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Chapter 35: The Hand Behind the Account
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Chapter 36: Authority in Arrears
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