CROWN OF VENOM AND VELVET

The Unaccounted

Author: Vesper—Elsewhere

The Unaccounted

[KAELIA BRYNN HALLOWAY]

Three thousand humans.

Missing.

It was a large number. One would even think much too large to simply hide, but for the Region of Valtiérre which had one of the largest human populations in the Iron World, a whopping 3.5 million—such a number could easily be overlooked when tallied.

Add stuff like mortality rate, stillbirths, census errors and other inconsistencies, it is ju