THE SOLMARA RADIANCE, Tick II. Solmara sits on the only deep-water port on the Arvend, hosts the Continental Exchange, and charters firms at half the list price. And still its treasury sleeps. Lucia Ferrant, proprietor of the Ferrant House of Radiance, offers the remedy: taxes light and held light, the treasury poured into capacity before the crowd crushes the wage, and Solmara luxury and grain sent out to out-earn Kesselmark soot and Zavodna rust. The grain men count their sacks and call it a platform. Radiance has a plan. At tick ten, the ballot decides.