The Lady's Party

In the days after they return via ship from Isla Tormentos, the heroes resettle into Paix life. Sebastien spends time with Christine, with whom he is growing close, and a friend - Benoit Bagot - asks him to cover one of his shifts as corporal of Musketeers so Benoit can escape to the country for a wekeend with his lady. Aleksei - through some consultation with Sister Martine - manages to place the rescued Vodacce Fate Witches in a country manor in his father's district. Shortly before the affairs at hand begin, Julien is approached by a man to execute a forged map, which he does and keeps quiet.

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A Musketeer's Duty

Several days later, Sebastien - as he promised his friend - is at the Musketeer hôtel as corporal on duty when Pierre Fagan, Chief Intendant of Paix, enters. The Chief Intendant - the senior bureaucrat for the generality of Paix - has an arrest warrant for Maximilien Gispert, the printer Sebastien met several days earlier at Lady Moncrieff's salon. According to Fagan, an informant has said that Gispert was involved in the bombing of the Paix Public Works six months earlier, and that evidence linking him to that crime will be found at his office. Sebastien sends a man ahead to warn Gispert (but also to tell him not to flee) and then proceeds to the printing-shop, where he arrests him on Fagan's warrant. During a search of the premises, one of the Musketeers finds a blueprint of the public works with incriminating notations in Gispert's hand.

Suspicious, Sebastien orders Gispert to be taken to the cells beneath Le Labyrinthe while he takes the map and goes to Julien, asking him if it is a forgery. Julien replies that it is not, or that if it is, it is very well done. The heroes come together; they determine that they will find the truth or falsity of this accusation, for it seems to them all that Gispert is not the sort of man who would have done this.

Investigation

Julien and Sebastien return to the printing shop, where they interview employees, the printer's wife, and search the premises again with more care. They clear the print-workers of wrongdoing - they did not have a key to the office where the map was found - and determine that the plates that originally made the map were not stolen. Then, when searching the office, they have a breakthrough: a bloody crossbow bolt, found underneath a desk, and from that conclude that a Porté mage must have stolen into the room to plant the map.

Meanwhile, Aleksei and Marie-Celeste have gone to Le Labyrinthe to learn what they can about Pierre Fagan. They meet his deputy, Jean Tourvelle - the Intendant for Justice - and learn something of Fagan's character. The man is an opportunist, an ambitious political climber, and while Tourvelle won't speak directly ill of the man he suggests that a miscarriage of justice may be occurring. He also lets on that Fagan has a prisoner at Les Chaines who says she will testify that Gispert was involved in exchange for clemency.

The Shadow of Philip du Paix

After oblique hints that Philip du Paix - and Lucien - may have been involved, Aleksei goes to confront the man in Le Labyrinthe. There, Philip directs Aleksei to Julien when the half-Ussuran nobleman questions Philip about the map's origin. Thus armed, Aleksei returns and the companions confront Julien, who admits that he had something to do with the forgery of the map. He promises to make things right, however, and disappears while the other companions put into action a plan to save Gispert.

The details are complex - they have Julien forge a letter recalling Fagan to Charouse, while they work to arrange Tourvelle as a replacement judge in Gispert's case and then plan to intercept the prisoner from Les Chaines. As a backup, they prepare to break Gispert out of prison in a sham prisoner-transfer and then spirit him and his wife to freedom.

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