I head into the center of Azure Prime with one debt in my pocket and another, more expensive, waiting to be born.
My goal isn't in the capital. I need the Oathmark teleport, first to settle some old promises, then to place a new bet that's probably going to cost me more than Scales.
Teleporting always runs pricier than a train, a carriage, or any ordinary transport, but if you have the right coordinates, it's the safest way to travel there is.
The trouble is that "if" carries enough corpses to fill a trench. One wrong digit, an inverted coordinate, a forgotten decimal point, and you can end up in unexplored territory, at the bottom of a dead zone, or on some continent no human has been unlucky enough to map yet.
There are thousands of Oathmarks scattered across Thirstfall, all of them older than our presence here. They've stood since the first human arrived, survived, and found a way back to Earth.
