Celehar\'s life as the Witness for the Dead of Amalo grows less isolated as his circle of friends grows larger.
Foundling boys go to the Prelacies; foundling girls are sold into service, or worse.
At once touching and shattering, Celehar\'s witnessing for one of these girls will lead him into the depths of his own losses.
The love of his friends will lead him out again..
Orphans with no family to claim them and no funds to buy an apprenticeship.
He has been given an apprentice to teach, and he has stumbled over a scandal of the city-the foundling girls.
Celehar\'s life as the Witness for the Dead of Amalo grows less isolated as his circle of friends grows larger