Rosaline of the Ledger and Sealed Eloise

People imagine debt as something invisible — a number scratched onto paper, a promise whispered across a polished desk. They have never worn it beneath their skin.

My name is Rosaline of the Ledger. Every contract I ever signed still lives somewhere inside me. Not in memory — those were purchased long ago — but in iron, in scar tissue, in the quiet ache that settles beneath the ribs whenever another payment is due. Across from me walks Sealed Eloise, her lips forever closed beneath a gilded covenant hammered into her flesh. The seal was meant to keep her promises from escaping. Instead, it silenced everything else. She speaks now only with her eyes, with the slow incline of her head, or with the precise movements of hands that have learned there are debts language can no longer describe.

We did not know one another before the Collectors found us. Our contracts were written by different scribes, witnessed by different priests, and purchased with different sins. I traded years I had not yet lived. Eloise surrendered every oath she had ever intended to break. We believed we were bargaining for survival. We were merely negotiating the terms of our eternity.

Among the Auric Collectors, we are not unusual. We are assets maintained beyond their natural lifespan, investments too valuable to abandon simply because death has already claimed them once. Flesh decays. Bone fractures. Gold darkens. Every loss is carefully measured, restored, and entered into the books. Somewhere, hidden beneath vaults where no sunlight has ever reached, clerks continue to record every wound we receive. Every scar is depreciation. Every battle is another installment. Every resurrection is an extension of credit.

The soldiers who fight beside us mistake our composure for courage. It is nothing so noble. Fear belongs to people who still possess the luxury of endings. We have accounts instead. We advance because delay accrues interest. We endure because collapse is inefficient. Even pain has become predictable — a familiar currency exchanged between flesh and obligation. After enough years, suffering no longer feels like punishment. It feels like accounting.

Eloise often kneels after battle, polishing the great golden seal that covers her mouth until it catches the firelight like a cathedral window. I polish my chains with the same devotion. Some laugh at the vanity of it. They fail to understand. If Mammon insists upon owning us forever, then we refuse to become neglected property. We remain immaculate because value deserves presentation. Even collateral should possess dignity.

Sometimes I wonder what Eloise's voice sounded like before the covenant claimed it. Whether she laughed loudly or spoke softly. Whether she sang. I have never asked. She has never answered. There is an intimacy in silence that words rarely survive. When the battlefield grows quiet between bombardments, we simply stand beside one another, listening to the gentle clink of gold against iron, knowing that neither companionship nor affection placed us here.

Only arithmetic.

Yet there are moments — brief enough to escape even Mammon's accountants — when she glances toward me, and I almost believe that two women can share something greater than obligation. The illusion never lasts. The next order comes. Another contract demands fulfillment. Another page waits to be balanced.

So we rise together, not because we belong to one another, but because we belong to the same impossible sum.

"Gold measures what we owe. Silence measures what we've already lost."


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The set – “Rosaline of the Ledger and Sealed Eloise”, designed by Wargames Crew

Total size 40mm
Base size 32mm

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