Brug's daughter Thalia is missing. His house is torn up, her bed cold, her hair in the brush. The cat-fur smell leads one way, the blood leads another, and a ruined tent next door watches everything. Whoever took her wanted the stone at her throat, not the girl — and a tentacle-father is still looking for its son.

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The parade is in two days. The cart is a wreck held together by Holic's late nights and Lorne's charity. No horses. A wanted terrorist's recipe in Beetle's fanny pack. Talim back in debt to the living. What the crew has cooked up so far won't feed a queue — and Queens is the whole city watching.

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Back inside the walls, the streets empty around them. Tyrant's Guild bashers in every alley and on every rooftop. A crane-crate avalanche, a pane of glass, a wall of market traffic, and a sniper's bullet that finds Beetle twice. Talim was dead. Then a portal in the desert drops him out of the sky on top of them.

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Into the Solitude. Through bone-tree swamps and ambush rot. They find Baldrick exactly where he said he'd be — cylinder helmet, arsonist's grin, and a frog sandwich in his hand before the greeting is out. The gates are tightening. The tyrants are watching everyone now. One man in, no questions, any cost.

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They crawl out a week late. Lorne is waiting in the alley with bad news about the crystals — there is a soul in every one, and Talim's may be one of them. The Elmas lost Helma. The parade is days away. And upstairs at the tavern, a new job sits waiting: smuggle a wanted terrorist back into the city.

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A door opens on a dinner party. Holic, the Elmas, and Gippuk smile across a red-slick table, piled meat in the middle, an empty plate for each Rotgoon. Eat and you belong to whatever is cooking this. Beetle fires into a statue — and a chained man lashed to a knight's shield opens his eyes and starts to howl.

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An orc corpse pincushioned with bolts. A trapped statue triggered in a blink. And for Gray, something worse: the dead man grabs her leg, his skin stripped away, and shows her what the hunters will do to every one of her family. She loses enough family. She will not lose another.

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Diamond Hands McBlark firebombs his competitor's shop, smiles wider than a man should, and invites the Rotgoons in to spend their coin. Kitted out and freshly armed, they finally descend into the ruins under Outset to find the missing blacksmith — where tyrant-branded skeletons wait in a hall that's already on fire.

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Holic sees the broken bottles, the lost horses, the state of his cart. Someone has to face him. While that plays out, Talim meets a wizard named Lorne Barnes who might identify the red talisman. Then the gem latches onto Beetle's hand and will not let go — and his mother and sisters appear around him asking, over and over, "is it funny."

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Cart wrecked. Horses gone. Heart plays draft animal while Beetle scrubs the evidence and a beautiful, possibly carnivorous sunflower rides shotgun. Baron Stackwall catches up on foot with Nugget at his heels, and around a sewer-chilled fire Heart gives each of his friends a polished shard of his own clay — a piece of himself to carry home.

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