A ledger that has been wrong for twelve years, a piece of paper meant to replace silver, and three people in the royal court, each convinced they’re calculating the same sum. One wants to expose it, one wants to hide it, and one is watching. Only at the end do they realize that what’s written on the paper isn’t in the silver vault, and what’s in the vault isn’t recorded on the paper. The weight of an entire dynasty rests on a few pages of numbers that don’t add up.
