October 2021 Short Story Poll (Redux)

Sorry, had to redo the vote- accidentally made it available to everyone last time. Time to (re)vote on next month's short story!

• The Battle of Lothal: Ampioc defends Lothal against two Havathi great powers, as mentioned in book 5.
  
• The Castle Thief: Solintus the Patient is ironically named, because he’s anything but patient. What the colossal great power wants, he gets, and he’s sent his servant Lane to the frigid karst city of Calo’s Watch to negotiate the purchase of the city’s fortress. Lane has a week until Solintus arrives, and one way or another, their master is taking the castle away with him. Something is rotten in Calo’s Watch, though, and it’s not the peat mines.
  
• Glory Days: Three Helicotan Lords Citizen tell stories around a campfire, as they rest on their hunt for a notorious face-changing outlaw. Set during the glory days of Helicote.
  
• The Shape of Memory: Drysa of the Vault is summoned to investigate the theft of a mysterious substance from a Tsarnassan military alchemical lab— and no one gets to leave the lab until the theft is solved. To make things worse, no one wants to tell Drysa exactly what was stolen. (Science puzzle story.)
  
• Who Killed Seltivor Cloudscale?: In the waning days of the Ithonian Empire, bandits and rogue great powers swarm like flies in its provinces. Seltivor Cloudscale was one of the worst of the lot, performing daring raids deep into the heart of the Ithonian Empire, and earning himself a bounty large enough to buy a small city. When the dragon is finally slain, though, there’s one problem:
  
  No less than a dozen mages claim to have been the true dragonslayer.
  
• Ghost Ship: The crew of a pirate vessel finds a ghost ship at sea, a smuggler filled with precious silks and spices. There is no sign of the crew, and few clues save for an increasingly deranged captain’s log that speaks of the end of the world and something monstrous devouring the horizon.