THE LIBRARY · THE SERED SPUR
Marks on the Hall Doorframe
aka the children's height-marks, the doorframe
Not a book at all — a column of knife-notches cut into the surviving doorframe of the Foldfast hall, each with a name and a year, the last two marks close together and never added to.
(The hall's north doorframe is the one wall the fallen roof spared. Someone measured children against it for a long time.) SERA — spring, the year of the good ewes SERA — the wet year DEL — first mark, he can stand now SERA — she is nearly to the latch DEL — the dry summer SERA & DEL, same day, so they would stop arguing which was taller DEL — the year the assay came back thin (Below the last mark, in a different, older hand, pressed hard enough to split the wood:) We will cut the next one at the new place. Whatever it costs. I am not measuring my children against a debt. (There is no next mark. The Broken Lances have nailed a kit-rack over the lower notches and do not appear to have read them.)
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All Relationships (4)
hidden_in
- →The Foldfast Steading — Knife-notches cut into the surviving hall doorframe of the dead steading.
references
- →quest.lay-the-foldfast-to-rest (unresolved) — The hall hearth beat of the lay-to-rest quest earns this note.
- ←A Letter, Still Sealed — The letter and the height-marks are the two halves of the Foldfast family's absence.
foreshadows
- →A Letter, Still Sealed — The 'new place' line seeds the family's unresolved fate the sealed letter never opens.
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