Ivory fitted each of its nine floors with a defence no rival guild could afford to test, across forty years of underwriting income. Every one of those fittings is coil, plate metal plus cut stone, so every one of them carries a dismantle value in Forge Energy.
A defence is a purchase, which means a defence standing idle is money its buyer has stopped counting.
Luna Marr costed the whole tower from the fourth-floor landing at the second hour, off the guild inventory the board had voted open the evening before. She has said since that she has never priced anything faster, plus never wanted a second reader at her elbow more.
[Tower inventory: opened under Association seal.]
[Nine floors: assessed for dismantle.]
