Carried Forward (The Trip Chronicles Book 3)

The Guild has summoned Trip as an "associated living evidentiary subject, to be presented by custodian." Failure to present carries a fine of up to fifteen gold. Garrett Harrow, who is the custodian, has never been so personally offended by a form. A year and a half ago, Garrett was a scholar with a debt and a deadline. Now he has a seat at Starfall Academy, a ledger he cannot stop keeping, and a small K'nid with four words, a primer, and a developing opinion of the Guild's paperwork. The hearing is careful, narrow, and entirely correct. So the Guild does what it does best when it is unsure of itself: it sends an audit up the north road. Varro brings his three rules. Merrow brings her pen. Aldous brings the pantry. An interpreter who learned K'nid from a book brings the courage to say "I can't render that." Garrett brings the ledger. Their job is to find out whether the Guild's own forms protect anyone. What they find is a camp that passes, a yard that might not, and a growing suspicion that some forms have no box for what a K'nid might want to say. The final book of The Trip Chronicles. A warm, funny, procedural fantasy about forms, footnotes, and what happens when someone finally leaves room for the answer. One audit. One very patient backpack.