Marionette Duelist

THE WILDS

Nightly, in the Marionette Court, the Stringwright restages the memories Ninelle stole — with puppets, to an empty house, so the stolen moments have somewhere to go. The Marionette Duelist plays every soldier the Reach forgot: it fences with the crisp, borrowed grace of a hundred dead swordsmen, strings taut to the dark above, and it will not break role even as you cut it down.