chapter one  In which Corvus and Niatross meet.  Advent's executioner.  Moscow's dog. 
    There are right feet, and there are wrong feet.  And each discovers, eventually, that neither is precisely what he seems.

                  Chapter One

    chapter two  In which misery loves company...and necessity dulls sharp tempers.  Understandings are reached
    in an unexpected setting.  Corvus lets down his guard, and vast inroads are made into the art of deciphering a man.

                  Chapter Two, Part One       Chapter Two, Part Two

    chapter three Dietrich gets to witness Emmett's Talent.  And then, things go wrong.

                   Chapter Three