Referencing “Pilgrim Dormitories”

Cinder Markets

Pepper oil buys supper. A bread token proves you exist.

At San Vesta's lowest terrace, pepper oil and ash cakes change hands beside bread shards, cool masks and forged triage slips. The Ledger counts whole loaves; the Cinder Markets trade what hunger breaks off.

Codex Ref. VII.1.03-002