Where the Turning Claims Trust: Book FiveWhat the Working TookA Vow Paid in Memory and Blood Rhosyn Dael got what she came for. Maren Vane is gone south along a coast road under Directorate guard, and Dain Ferro is left in a borrowed bed in a city that just renounced the Choir, half-blind, half-healed, and entirely out of time. Every soldier he's ever been tells him to move now. Every wound he's carrying tells him he can't, not yet, not without help he has never fully known how to ask for. What waits at the end of that road is worse than a cell. The Directorate has confirmed what it needs Maren for, not her signature, not her silence, but her living, continuous presence, and the woman who branded Dain nine years ago is no longer the only one interested in proving exactly what that presence can be made to do. Getting to her means trusting people Dain has spent four books learning, badly and slowly, to actually rely on: a smuggler with her own unspoken losses, a healer who has patched him without payment twice too often to be a coincidence, and a boy whose worst mistake nearly cost them everything and who is asking, again, to be let back in. Some costs cannot be taken back once paid. Dain knows that better than anyone, and he is about to learn exactly how much further that debt can run, on both sides of it. What happens when trusting someone means letting them choose a price you would never let them pay if the choice were yours to make?