The ledger has a page of instructions at the front, and the page is four columns wide and every column is a condition, and the last one is the problem.

MioneTerm is only taken from a body that is asleep and content. Not asleep. Not content. Both, at the same time, and it has to be real.

CorvinaThe bed can tell. I have seen two men try to fake it and it gave them nothing for six hours and charged them for the six hours.

PorterCharged them what? They were already in the bed.

CorvinaTheir sleep. It took the sleep and gave nothing back, and neither of them slept again for a year.