Last Courses of the Old Galleries

A torn Stoneborn quarry ledger recording poor yield, cracked supports, and the sealed final course whose contents were entered only as a debt to the clan.

[a quarry ledger leaf, ruled in red ochre; the lower corner has been cut away rather than torn] OLD DEEPVEIN, SOUTH COUNTING ROOM Last account before transfer of seat Course Forty-Seven. Sixteen days. Grey stone, sound for blocks. Two carts iron stain, no payable vein. Props used: nine oak, three bronze shoes. One shoe split under load. Charge to cutter Berrun's line after inquiry. Course Forty-Eight. Eleven days. Wet joint opened along the north wall. Water bitter, no heat. Foreman ordered gutter cut and second lintel set. Yield: nothing worth the lamp oil. The stone does not owe us ore because we asked twice. Close at the marked fault. Course Forty-Nine. Four days. Old tool marks found beyond the face, running against our cut. Not House work. Not Imperium work. Master Senn struck the wall and heard room behind. The sounding was witnessed by five. No entry made that shift. Fifth day. Entry made by Master Senn, Dova Flint, Orric Valehand, and two bearers whose names are entered in the clan roll. They returned before the second meal. One bearer did not. Tools returned: four picks, one bent; two lamps, both cold; measuring chain, short by seven links. Yield entered by order of the House as ONE DEBT, UNWEIGHED. Course Fifty. Named the Last Gallery by full assent. New wall laid across Forty-Nine with fitted granite, no mortar, clan marks inward. Bronze boundary pins set. The cold foundry is to be quenched. Good ledgers and blood rolls go with the seat. This leaf stays for any fool who calls the old works merely empty. Reason for departure entered publicly: veins exhausted. This is true. Reason for cutting no farther entered under seal: the clan has enough debt below. Signed, Mara Deepvein, tally hand by the first cooling, which held

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