The Reverberation of the Fog: the Sound of the Tide Under the Throne

All strange cases are a fig leaf for power struggles, and all schemes are completing rituals for an old existence that has never appeared. The seventh "drowned victim" after the winter in the imperial capital fell in the middle of a dry street. The mouth and nose of the deceased were filled with salty seawater, but there were no signs of struggle in the lungs; after Eve touched the body, she saw a crown soaked in the black tide...