The Salt Register
In the frozen Baltic port of the amber guild, a new apprentice named Sven arrives to take up the least desirable post in the guildhall: reconciling forty years of neglected assay books. The work is tedious and cold, conf…
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The Winter Assay
In the depths of a Baltic winter, the Assay Office of Kühlhaven discovers a one-gram daily discrepancy in its amber ledger. Master Assayer Grigory, a man who trusts only his scales, must find the source of the error befo…
The Gradient
In the summer of 1937, an engineer named Tomás Arismendi arrives in Larija to survey the branch line for closure. He is methodical, solitary, and certain that the railway is a financial drain that must be terminated. His…
The Thousand-Day Timetable
It is December 15th, 1923, and the high Andean town of Quillcay is locked in winter's grip. The railway has been closed for months, but Stationmaster Emilio Vargas is found dead in his office, suffocated with a cushion. …