Kester Keeps Score

"He hasn't been named. Nobody touch him." That's the verdict a stranger's household passes on Isaac Wainwright the instant he stumbles out of a Closing into a kingdom he can't pronounce - the only safety THE DOORWORK has ever bought him. Four faculties, one man, no exceptions. SEAM tears a passage through eleven minutes of illegal, audible speech, once every twenty hours. HOLD keeps a carried thing's home magic alive until a leach window runs out - then whatever he's holding stays dead for good. He isn't chasing a way home. He's chasing the one appetite that has never let a shut door stay shut - the only reason a stateless man with no trade gets kept instead of disposed of.