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A Transfer Tally
aka the Silt Hands work-tally
A working Silt Hands tally pinned in the dry workings — crates in, crates out, the Cut turned from a dead prospect into a live cache.
CUT — running tally, keep it dry, keep it quiet. In: 6 salt-barrels (false bottoms, Driftmarket run), 2 crates temple-bronze (do not open, Keeper's word), 1 roll oiled hides. Out: 4 salt-barrels to the night boat, 1 crate bronze held back on Keeper's mark — held back AGAIN, third time, ask no questions. Hounds fed twice. Whoever let the wet-branch gate stand open at last dark, the Keeper knows it was you and you had best hope she forgets. The beasts are the alarm. An open gate is no alarm at all. Dry timber holds. Water's up two hands on the low drift since the melt. If it keeps rising we move the whole cache before midsummer, Keeper says. She won't say where.
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Type Fields
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references
- →The Silt Hands — A working Silt Hands crate-tally pinned in the dry workings.
- →The Sunken Cut — The tally tracks the Cut's cache going live, water rising on the low drift.
- →Mara Venn — The tally names the Keeper's mark on a crate held back a third time.
precedes
- ←Scratched on a Brace — The beasts denned first; the smugglers moved in after and made them the alarm.
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