A dreamy, nonlinear novella in which a mysterious visitor with a box full of stories gets the unwilling attention of a spirit-caretaker for a city. The spirit-caretaker is innocent and empathic; the stories open ær eyes (yep, this is one of those stories with extremely nonstandard pronouns) to the moral gray area æ inhabits as æ tries to uphold the city’s isolationist standards. The overarching plot is a bit thin, but the interstitial stories are poignant and pretty.