
The Golden Lion filled its broad rooms with linen dealers and travellers while you kept its kitchens, stores, and accounts moving. Marie, no person in Lorraine can judge bread, wine, poultry, and stable corn faster than you. You step into this one-chapter preview with George Voss at the center, where choices turn on the people, promises, and pressure already in the room. The cart for Colmar waited in the yard, leaving only minutes to break the double mistake before silence carried him away again. The chapter closes on a continuation question rather than resolving the novel's larger arc.
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