In Meviel, the great city-state set on an endless sea, manners, status, and the family luck can steer a person’s fate, or change it utterly. Here are three tales of luck, love, and swordplay: In “Virtue and the Archangel” a young woman loses her virtue—and her family’s fabled luckstone—and it’s up to an old friend to retrieve it for her—at swords point if necessary. In “Writ of Exception” two young women are chagrined to find they are being forced by their parents to unite their inheritances in marriage. And in “Wreath of Luck,” a stowaway on a pirate ship learns a lesson about the true nature of love.