Kitt has completed his financier training and returns to Lundain. The street urchin has transformed into a polished young man whose touch turns everything to gold. Os, meanwhile, has flunked his methic exams—but a unique talent brings him to the attention of the financier’s Guild Master, who enlists him to develop a feeling that will grant Midas-fingers to every financier. But his greed results in a terrible accident in which Lundain is consumed by toxic feelings ...