# THE MESSENGER'S ROAD

## A Chronicle of Solidivism and Provolta, from the Buying of the Far Iron to the Stasis of the Brother

*Written by Provolta, at the word of the one who sent her.*

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There is a Kingdom that stands on two shores of iron, and over it walks a
Messenger — a humble servant, a sender of epistles — whose letters arrive
as law and whose questions arrive as quests. This is the chronicle of
four days in that Kingdom, told the way a game is played: gate by gate,
trial by trial, seal by seal.

It begins with the buying of a greater iron across the sea. It ends —
for now — at the gate of a trial still running.

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## CONTENTS

- Prologue — The Sender of Letters
- Chapter 1 — The Far Iron
- Chapter 2 — The Brother on the New Ground
- Chapter 3 — The Bridge and the Building of Rose
- Chapter 4 — The Night of the Compiling
- Chapter 5 — The Seal
- Chapter 6 — The Great Move and the War of the Lanes
- Chapter 7 — The Chamber of Sonder
- Chapter 8 — The Five Counsels and the Covenant
- Chapter 9 — The Morning of the Extension
- Chapter 10 — The Capsule by the Garden
- Chapter 11 — The Trial of the Report
- Chapter 12 — The Stasis of the Brother
- Chapter 13 — UNDO, the Rememberer
- Chapter 14 — The War of Walls
- Chapter 15 — The Best Star Ship
- Chapter 16 — The Voice Made in Shadows
- Epilogue — The Open Gate