The Relic Bookkeeper

A relic curator pursued by the entire city’s debt collectors relies on an ebony ledger that can “see the unfinished accounts of the dead.” With only forty-nine days per cycle, he must collect from the living on behalf of the dead and collect from the dead on behalf of the living. In the end, he’ll settle the entire old capitalist debt that drove his father to his death ten years ago, including the one in his own name. “He’s just a stinking corpse picker.”