Ferry Stone
Law makes rooms in Kastrin-doors that listen, floors that remember. Binder Iria Vale and stormcaller Cael Draven face sabotage by wires, stamps, and spectacle, and answer with kitchen law: Charters of Breath, Names, Thresholds, Ferry, Scales, and Service-short rules anyone can carry. Hearings move to doorways; parades turn into consent; kits of rope, broom, and a bronze disk travel town to town. Across the river, hats and marble learn to label their wires. Hopepunk civic fantasy with intrigue, practical magic, and a slow-burn vow at the ferry-stone.
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Law makes rooms in Kastrin-doors that listen, floors that remember. Binder Iria Vale and stormcaller Cael Draven face sabotage by wires, stamps, and spectacle, and answer with kitchen law: Charters of Breath, Names, Thresholds, Ferry, Scales, and Service-short rules anyone can carry. Hearings move to doorways; parades turn into consent; kits of rope, broom, and a bronze disk travel town to town. Across the river, hats and marble learn to label their wires. Hopepunk civic fantasy with intrigue, practical magic, and a slow-burn vow at the ferry-stone.
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216 mm | 140 mm | 11 mm | 245 gr
Erscheinungsjahr
2025
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Verlag
guy roberts
ISBN-10
9798231867516
Autor
Roberts, Guy
Sprache
Englisch
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188
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