'Bell bearing of a merchant left behind, found upon his perished flesh. Offer to the Twin Maiden Husks at the Roundtable Hold to gain access to new items.' The Twin Maiden Husks are the silent quartermasters of the Roundtable Hold : two ceremonial bodies, dressed identically in black-and-gold finery, sitting back-to-back on a single carved bench in the Hold's western wing. They never speak. They never move except to accept Bell Bearings, small carved tokens taken from the bodies of every dead merchant in the Lands Between, and add the dead merchant's inventory to the Roundtable's shop.

'Knight Bernahl's bell bearing, found upon his perished flesh. Offer to the Twin Maiden Husks at the Roundtable Hold to gain access to new items.' The husks are not corpses, exactly. They are the last surviving Finger Maidens : the women who were once charged with reading the Two Fingers' twitches into language, before Marika withdrew the office. Their hands, when accepting a Bell Bearing, twitch like the Fingers themselves do. The Maidens have not died. They have been husked of grace. The Roundtable continues, in their quiet professional service, an order whose god has gone silent.