Nine families, two guilds, and one signature scraped from every copy. Archie Plume on how the Sable Charter was founded, where it was really signed, and the name nobody will read aloud.

A river with a country attached to it. Archie Plume on the four regions of the Sable, the Charter with one signature scraped away, and the ancient stones that point somewhere other than the water.

One autumn night the ink vanished from three centuries of Orienne's records. In the spring it began to come back, in a hand no one recognizes. Case unexplained.