Referencing “Mercy Orphanarii”

Pale Kin Runner

What the Bureau calls inventory discrepancy; what the mothers call salvation

The Pale Kin Runner is a child-smuggler, a midwife's heir, and the Bureau of Conscription's oldest unsolved arithmetic problem. She intervenes between birth and stamp. The Synod calls this heresy.

Codex Ref. XII.28.01-001