You came in from the rain with nothing. You leave with a family.
You arrive in the glittering river city of Vesperine with a cardboard suitcase and no plan, and on the
coldest night of the year a crimson velvet door opens for you: the Velvet Lantern, a jazz cabaret run by a drag queen
with a boxer's hands, a nonbinary stage magician, a trans bandleader with a golden trumpet, and a doorman who knits.
They take in strays. They also owe three months' rent, and a crooked commissioner wants them shut down for good.
Wait tables, learn the tricks, hear the lies — and help the family that saved you save the Lantern.
