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Meret Vann

aka the Floodreader

The Trade-Moot's floodreader and charter-fee auditor — the clerk whose job is to make sure Highbridge's ledgers say what the water and the wards actually did, in a government that has learned it can chisel a new fact into stone if the old ones become inconvenient.

Meret reads floodmarks and charter counts for a living, which in Highbridge is a job with teeth: every mark on the Span is evidence before it is memory, and every charter fee that crosses Charterhouse Row is supposed to land in the same public ledger the fishwives can read without a clerk. She believes that literally, which makes her useful to the Moot and occasionally inconvenient to it. She answers to the High Reeve's office on paper and to her own arithmetic in practice, and she has never yet found a discrepancy she was willing to let alone just because closing it would embarrass someone with a bolted chair.

KIND

mortal

SPECIES

Human

RACE

Humankind

CURRENT LOCATION

Highbridge

Connected

The Highbridge Trade-MootFACTION · Meret Vann is the Trade-Moot's floodreader and chart…Halvard CraneCHARACTER · Meret's audits ultimately answer to the High Reeve —…

Type Fields

kindmortal

speciesHuman

raceconcept.race-human

current_locationplace.highbridge

homeplace.highbridge

affiliationsfaction.highbridge-trade-moot

roleFloodreader and charter-fee auditor for the Trade-Moot

disposition55

hostileno

wantTo keep Highbridge's public ledger honest, at the clerk level, whatever it costs upstream.

flawShe cannot see a discrepancy and choose to let it be someone else's problem.

secretHer own audit trail is what eventually surfaces High Reeve Halvard Crane's quiet payments to House Vandahl — she has not yet decided what she owes the Moot that employs her versus the ledger she swore to keep honest.

voice_notesDry, precise, faintly indignant on the numbers' behalf. 'Seven floods cut honest scars. This eighth has sharp corners, fresh dust, and a tax attached.'

All Relationships (2)

member_of

→The Highbridge Trade-Moot — Meret Vann is the Trade-Moot's floodreader and charter-fee auditor, answerable to the High Reeve's office.
→Halvard Crane — Meret's audits ultimately answer to the High Reeve — which is exactly what makes her charter-count discovery dangerous to him.

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