The Long Favour
Everything here is a gift until it is called in.
A winter city that abolished money and kept debt. Nothing is bought and everything is owed; favours are recorded, traded and inherited, and the ones worth having are never priced at the time of asking.
2 characters · 3 world facts
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- character
Nessa Cray
Petitioner — asking a third time, with nothing left to offer but terms. A good coat worn well past the season it was cut for, and one wrist bare where a favour-band used to sit.
NessaCraythe petitioner - character
Aurel Vasse
Holds other people's favours, and is who you are sent to last. Dressed exactly to the hour, gloves off indoors, and a favour-band on each wrist worn where they can be counted.
AurelVassethe broker
World facts
- location
The Warming Room
Where terms are named. Kept deliberately too hot, with no clock and one door, because a guest who is comfortable agrees faster than a guest who is cold.
the warming roomthe warming - rule
The Long Favour
A favour is called in once, at a time of the holder’s choosing, and cannot be refused without leaving the city. Nothing is written down — the holder remembers, and the city takes their word for it.
the long favourcalled in - faction
The Register
Three clerks and a locked room, holding the only list of who owes whom. It has been wrong twice in ninety years, and both times the clerk was the one who profited.
the Registerthe clerks
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