Nikola Muckajev
Neris Tal has one bell to get the Venn household through Stepwind station and get back to the playhouse. Their stage shoes are in their case. The Venns have one carrier receipt. The soldiers put them in two queues.Then fighting breaks out at the station. Families trying to leave the occupied March find stairs and landings blocked. Ivara’s advisers want to strike the shared anchor. Adra’s troops still hold it, and the people whose homes depend on it would be there when it fell. As the crowns consider their next move, Neris and Captain Vael have to find roads people can actually take, with the wounded beside them and the soldiers still at the gates.