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 | Ch19 | **Guard at the deal.** Walks Kae from Brida's to 14 Greystone Lane (Phelan left, Leon behind). At the guild hall interview room, takes guard position at the door while Ledger runs the deal and Phelan observes from the side wall. Watches Kae sign — the boy who tried to kill him two hours ago. **"You can fill me in on the crystal at practice later — you know I'm interested."** Signals he's staying — assumes a future ("later," "practice"). Processing the aftermath of his five words | Guard / assumed future |
 | Ch21 | **The philosophy shift, externalised (training scene).** Day 18 Freyasday, sixth bell, chandler's courtyard. First on-page training session since Ch12. Opens with *"Couldn't sleep"* — the small reveal he doesn't want to be asked about. Runs three clean integration passes at 15 seconds each. Watches Phelan reach for the sixteenth second and not find it, and names the plateau out loud: *"You're not going to get sixteen out of Carterson's ring."* No push, no sales angle — four months ago he'd have framed it as an upgrade opportunity and priced two alternatives in his head before Phelan had toweled off. He lets the observation stand. **The buyer-vetting beat (the externalised shift):** at the end of the second pass, Leon asks Phelan about **Arren Yule** — a private collector in the south end of the arcane district who has offered **2,400 silvers** for the **Harrow Vale threshold seal** Leon pulled from a ruin three years back. Pre-Compact placeable ward, no offensive load, fine perimeter engravings. Carson has already cleared the name. Leon wants a second read. Phelan flags the price anomaly (48× a good commoner ward). Leon admits that's what put him in the chair at sixth bell. They work malicious uses together — trap-in-a-room, sealed vault, corridor retreat — and every path collapses on logistics. Lands on *"it's a lock"* and delivers his own hammer metaphor: *"Even if someone turned it into a weapon, **they'd** have turned it into a weapon. That's not the ward's fault any more than it's the hammer's fault when somebody picks up a hammer to hit a person with."* Then mentions the engravings — collector money for a pretty object, not a weapon, *"a lock with nice handwriting."* Phelan agrees to ask around on Yule. **The beat Phelan files without naming:** four months ago Leon would have handed the seal to a fence, taken the discount, and filed the paperwork under things that weren't his problem. That morning he was brokering it himself, which means he owned where it went, which means he spent a night turning the piece over in his head looking for a weapon hiding inside a lock before deciding the win was big enough to take. He doesn't use the word *growth.* Never will. **Uninformed about Phelan & Mere's marriage/children decision per Book 2 lock** — all reveals deferred to Book 3 | Philosophy shift externalised / buyer vetting |
 
+| Epilogue | **Wedding party attendance, Arren Yule fee delivered, next piece teased.** Attends Phelan and Mere's wedding party at Chandler's Row Day 28 evening. Arrives fifteen minutes after Carson, "late by his own clock and exactly on time by anybody else's." Drops a small cloth twist on the table in front of Phelan. *"Arren Yule's clean. Everything you found lined up with what Carson had already told me. That's your ask-around fee."* Phelan opens it: **six silvers, matching the filing fee** — *"Thought you'd appreciate the symmetry."* The Ch21 philosophy shift is now lived-in practice: *"a season ago he would have framed this as a loan, or a favour, or a preview of a larger transaction I had not yet agreed to. Tonight he framed it as a fee. The framing was the whole shift."* References the next piece coming off the stack: *"Bigger than the Harrow Vale seal. I'm brokering it myself. I'll want a second read before I let it walk."* Phelan: *"Bring it by."* Standing arrangement. **Attended the wedding party as a wedding party** — uninformed about the Ch21 kitchen-table children conversation or Phelan's father wound per Book 2 lock. Exchanged a nod with Ledger on Ledger's way out | Fee not favour / next piece / wedding attendance |
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