Referencing “The Ragged Host”

The Ashen Ascension

Mercy with a bowl, a ledger, and an appetite it will not name

The Ashen Ascension feeds before it prays, shelters before it asks, and names the dead before it claims the living — which is why the Bureau cannot burn it without admitting what the Bureau has failed to feed.

Codex Ref. XII.9.04-001