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People are vanishing in Venice-like Skendgrot, and Vittoria Goritz, antiquities dealer and solipsist, is the prime suspect.Yet Vitti is far from the sole culprit behind the strange disappearances. Skendgrots militia have been quietly purging theMorePeople are vanishing in Venice-like Skendgrot, and Vittoria Goritz, antiquities dealer and solipsist, is the prime suspect.Yet Vitti is far from the sole culprit behind the strange disappearances. Skendgrots militia have been quietly purging the citys undesirables, and the effects of this are reaching critical mass: the spaces left by the vanished criminals and neer-do-wells are being filled by an unstoppable flood of the hazy, semi-corporeal people nicknamed the inchoate.But despite the warnings of the citys esotericists and natural philosophers, the militia are planning a mass vanishing, with a disastrous aftermath only Vitti can remedy—if she finally acknowledges the true extent of her ability. | |||
