The Stink Mage of Hollowfen

Bristle can read things no instrument can measure - the history of a space, the weight of a lie, the slow corruption spreading through the waterways beneath Hollowfen. The Royal Mage Academy has a word for practitioners like him: unrecognized.

When the corruption reaches the city's edge, Bristle is the only one who can read it correctly. Getting anyone to act on what he finds is another matter entirely.

The Stink Mage of Hollowfen is a story about a system that refuses to measure what it can't control, and one practitioner who decides the system's opinion of his worth is not the same thing as his worth.