Wyrm-Vault Warden

THE WYRMCRYSTAL VAULT

Caldreth, last tollkeeper of the six crowns, still audits the Wyrmcrystal Vault, and these are her clerks: travellers who could not pay the road-toll, remade in crystal and set to guard the treasury of a kingdom that no longer collects. Each Warden's chest holds the exact sum it owed, fused to the ribs. The Ivory Wyrm keeps faith. The debt keeps them.