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Bell-Litanies
The body obeys; the paperwork calls it willing
Bell-Litanies rout mobs, halt riots and recall stragglers through sanctioned sound. The company spends a chit; the faithful spend their strength. At Ragusa the crowd burned. The Bureau calls this a triumph of acoustics.
Codex Ref. VI.3.01-004
Bureau of Shadows
Fourteen confirmations of nonexistence. The grave-dust wax alone cost more than silence is supposed to.
The Bureau of Shadows does not exist. Fourteen decrees confirm this, each bearing between three and seven counter-seals, each filed under a category the Bureau of Records insists is empty.
Codex Ref. VIII.8.01-001
Grand Carillon of the Basilica
Strasbourg issues the hour
The Grand Carillon issues Strasbourg's eight canonical hours to the Theocracy. I commend its seven-second tolerance: enough room for a dispensation, and scarcely enough for an excuse.
Codex Ref. V.1.02-002