Chapter 10 · free to read
The stay held. But the ledger did not treat Pip like a hostage. It treated him like a returning signature.
The court's own registry corrected them. Pip had never been mere comic relief. He was on the docket.
The chipped-horned little familiar who feared everything was, it turned out, the only one of them the court could not call an outsider.
The archive did not pause for their discovery. A routine foreclosure came rolling down the aisle like a tide of grey.
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