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Ten O’Kerar wasn't on any map. If one asked a cab driver, the most likely reply was a shrug: a name a drunk old man muttered in an alley, the name of a ship, the name of some aristocrat long turned to dust. But at a bend where the brickwork leaked shadow, the street opened into a courtyard she didn't remember ever seeing. In its center stood a fountain with a statue of a woman whose eyes had been gouged out. Lanterns hung from unseen hooks, their flames steady and blue.