Description
"The table is in the wrong position."It was, Vessin Kael concedes. She moved it. And with that, the commission begins.Vessin is the Empire's finest structural engineer - solitary, exacting, more fluent in load tolerances than in human connection. She has spent eleven years building things that outlast the politics that commissioned them, working alone because the problems she solves are best solved that way, and telling herself, carefully and accurately, that she has never been lonely.