At the Whole-in-the-Whorl, or, How the Redwater Murders were Begun (Story)

Summary
At the Whole-in-the-Whorl currency exchange, Xin, a poor water-carrier, attempts to barter his family’s unconventional inheritance for something more practical, but through the intercession of the Sudiczki sisters he exchanges his own fate for a destiny of considerable consequence.

Story
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Trivia
This started out as two separate story ideas - the currency exchange, originally called All Extraordinaries, and the Whole-in-the-Whorl, which had the three sisters going for it but not much else. Then somewhere in my head there was an idea-collision, and now there is this.

Author
Robert G. Cook