“ They say they are dead. But they certainly have their finger on the pulse of the Cage." author of The Factol's Manifesto about the Dustmen       First Void Day of Retributus, 126 HR Three days after the meeting with Sarin, they stood in a narrow alley not far from the Mortuary, ready for their covert mission. As promised, the Harmonium's factol had equipped them with Dustmen faction badges and the same simple gray robes the Dead usually wore when working in the Mortuary. So Naghûl, Jana, Lereia and Sgillin stood close to the wall of the house in almost identical garb, sheltering under the projecting roof from the light drizzle that was just beginning to fall. They were still waiting for Kiyoshi, who was to join them from the Barracks with a fold-out stretcher. A stretcher because they had decided to disguise one of them as a corpse and carry him under a sheet. With a dead body, they hoped, they would be more likely to be shown the way to the portal to th