Session 7

If the party go to Speaker Miriam Dol, it is to ask about the corruption on Emil’s grave and on Wat. She presided over Emil’s rite in session 0, when it bounced. Who she is: Who You Already Know. What she already holds is on the session 0 prep read: the burial register, that Emil’s was the third casting off since the turn that did not take, that a Sai clerk asked her to keep it quiet, and that she clears the offering stones at dawn herself (Jack picked this scene, 2026-10-08).

• She goes quiet. The party describe the casks, the green, the grave. She has seen the green before, on the failed rites.
• She names the clerk. Oswin Tuck, the Kestrel’s man, the good coat at the last two rites. He did not stay for either, but he came to her afterwards. He asked her to keep the failed rites quiet, and he asks to read the burial register. “That’s the form.”
• She sees it while they talk. The register is every death in Onda, who they were and when they go into the sea. Tuck has been reading the route’s shopping list, and she has been handing it to him.
• Insight: she is ashamed, not lying.
• Her offer: wake the Cold Kiss once. Only a Speaker can, and only once. Woken, it lets a soul marked with it speak. She will do it at Emil’s grave or over what is left of Wat. Where, and whether, is the party’s call.
• The woken soul (Jack, 2026-10-10). It behaves the way Wat’s did: it wants the Cold Kiss to send it on. Nobody sees it until Nonne works out that he has to rage and use the Cold Kiss.
• Why Isa avoids her. Isa saw Tuck speak to Miriam after her father’s rite and thinks Miriam sold him.

Where. On the strand at dawn, where she clears the offering stones herself (Jack, 2026-10-11).

The fight. Partway through, Tuck comes down the strand with Kestrel’s writ and Sai muscle to have Miriam enter the warehouse dead as murdered and name the burners. He finds them with her and arrests them (Jack, 2026-10-12). Miriam fights beside the party. Numbers on the register fight page (Jack, 2026-10-10).

It ends with the offer on the table and Tuck as a name the party can chase. Tuck is also on the deck fight with his tally, if they stop the shipment.

Wat’s spirit left at rest in session 5, so a waking over Wat may find no one to speak. Emil’s claimed soul is still at the grave, and so is Jory’s bait.

Not reached in session 6. Haxami now pitches the cleared warehouse as a service that covers Losam if the Inquisitors come.

Dita got there first (Jack, 2026-10-10). The night of session 6, after Kerrigan and Chrysanthemum told her everything, she went to her father. Half damage control, half congratulations. Losam left the warehouse to her, and it is cleared, so her story is that she did what he asked. She is racing to make sure hers is the version he hears.

A contest. Her version lands first, and Losam credits her: the warehouse was her job, and the party were her hire. Haxami has to beat her story with what she hid from him:

• The dead men in the cellar, and the two crews that never came out.
• Her own crew, the Five Fingers, going for the people who cleared it.
• Proof: the full casks that survived the fireball, the ledger pages Nonne holds.

Losam knew something was wrong and chose not to look (his page). He would rather hear it from someone who is not family. If Haxami makes him look, he wins: Losam pays him, takes the warehouse from Dita, and offers his one chance to cut loose from Sai. The three ways are sketched on Losam’s one chance.

Not run in session 6. As built: Nonne and Thor.

Thor can give Nonne the Second Thought (Jack, 2026-10-12). It is Thor’s own pearl, his thanks for the Cold Kiss in place of pay. How he came by it is not decided. If it goes this way, Dita’s errand with Trill does not happen.

She lied to him on the bracelet in session 6. The money never came up. She now knows everything that happened at the Long Crossing: Kerrigan and Chrysanthemum told her, including Haxami’s Inquisitor threat (Jack, 2026-10-10). As built: Marellius and the money. Gone if Haxami reaches Losam first.

As built: the Second Thought.

One of two ways the pearl reaches Nonne. The other is Thor’s.

Jory holds Isa at the cliff edge and offers a trade: the Cold Kiss for Isa and Emil’s soul. It happens as the party come up the headland. The raven at the grave in session 6 was his eyes, so he knows Nonne has the Cold Kiss. Numbers, the trade and Isa in the sea are on the grave fight page (Jack, 2026-10-10).