Applied Certainty
Fantasy
The writ hangs on the kitchen wall, pinned with a pie fork, and it gives her thirty days.
Temporary classification: post-Cracking anomaly, unlicensed and unexamined. Failure to appear: actionable. Her father countersigned the bond, in the plain guild hand she learned her letters copying, because the alternative was travel in custody.
The Academy Provincial has six counters for arrivals, including one for people who dispute their arrival. Nobody wins at that counter. The counter exists to receive the dispute. There is a court that does not hear things, only determines whether things have been heard, and a mint where the certificate is the thing, and a fountain whose water appears to have signed away its opinions.
Genna arrives with a knight she never requested, one turnip of undeclared purpose, and a reasonable expectation that somewhere in that building, in some room, before some instrument, she will finally be asked what she actually is.
The building does not stock the question.