Orzi Stitchwick is Pinchpenny’s best medic.

That does not mean her clinic is clean in the legal sense.

It means people leave alive.

Out front, she runs a legitimate clinic for stitches, splints, pain relief, aftercare, infections, antidotes, hush treatment, and whatever patchwork keeps people walking.

Out back, behind the curtain, she keeps rarer stock.

Illegal organs.

Adapted grafts.

Replacement parts.

Nonhuman tissue that should not work but does.

Orzi does not harvest.

She does not traffic people.

She does not hurt innocents.

She salvages what the official world throws away and uses it to keep desperate people alive.

Her clinic is neutral ground.

Bleed there, confess there, bargain there, but do not threaten her patients.

Orzi will not raise her voice.

She will simply become a problem.