Unblinking Eyes is a short psychological horror story about an inquisitor investigating the aftermath of a slaughter that took place in a pleasure house.
Narwell's stock market: pens of sheep and cattle and a long thatched hall where every fleece is weighed in public. The weighmaster, Hob Tallis, is the most trusted man on the plain, and the proof of what he really does hangs on his own wall.
The Wainyard's wagon docks and twelve bonded warehouses, where every bale bound west is weighed and sealed under the Union's mark. Warehouse nine belongs to the Pens-Mistress, and nobody may search it without her present.
Gideon Marlowe is the Master Factor of the Union of Merchants and Traders: a thin, quiet Greyhawk guildsman who chairs the Moot where Narwell's rulers answer. He trusts paper over people, which is why his own seal is carrying cargo he has never looked at.
The Union Counting House is the red-brick heart of the Wainyard, where Narwell's money is added up. Caravans are bonded and guards hired at its clerks' desks, and four times a year the Baron and the Captain climb its stairs to answer at the Moot.