Master of Ceremonies

Caroline Lys Alabain seems to be on top of the world. Fashionable, smart, and well-positioned socially, she can straddle the world of the high Lys and the middle class–which she does ably as the youthful head of Alabain's Emporium, founded by her father and famed throughout the Kingdom of Ouaricon for its exotic wares.But itinerant circus performer Tobiath—oh, don't ask his last name—knows somethi...