15 “So that’s the three thousand two hundred and seventy-eight credits owed for mooring fees paid,” the senior clerk said once Cas had pressed his hand on the pad to authorise the payment. “Now we come to the medical expenses.” Cas waited to hear how much his brother’s medical expenses were going to amount to - a lot was his guess. He had been directed to the clerk to handle his brother’s affairs, which so far seemed to consist of paying off the various fines and debts Nikolai owed to Orentus City at the time of his death, debts and fines that were taking large bites out of his savings. The fines relating to Nikolai’s criminal activities on Aeyor - Cas was almost certain the fines, and the crimes his brother was alleged to have committed, were merely a cover for the truth of how he had

