Ashcrole

Ashcrole appears against Serathorne in the double-toll suit for a client it declines to name, and the pleadings are drafted at Talionwe and paid for through a counting house at Verrigan. Serathorne's proctors have asked four times who is behind it and been told the question is not properly before the court.

Sumizuki retains Ashcrole's hall to receive and answer the summonses it declines to accept on the beacon rock. The retainer runs to two hundred barrels of salted bonito a year, paid in fish and not in coin.

Drennhold retains the agency hall at Ashcrole to stand as named principal in the annual filing about the underground passage boundary against the Reach water records office, so the paper leaves a coast address rather than a gate number. Ashcrole has appeared in the matter for eleven years and its fee comes from a name that does not appear on the filing.

Rice for the agency hall comes to the reed landings by boat, two hundred koku a year, since nothing on a shell ridge behind a mangrove will grow it. The last two seasons arrived short with a note about the sandbar, and Ashcrole paid in full both times without asking for the note to be explained.

Ashcrole's agency hall's retainers are funded through a Serathorne bill-broker and Lysathiel appears nowhere in the retainer. The free-port bar has assumed for eleven years that Lysathiel is the money behind it and cannot prove so.

Ashcrole's boats fill thirty casks a week at Ordwaine's causeway spring, there being nothing on the shell ridge fit to drink. Ordwaine takes the fee in certified transcripts of the harbour court's list, which the archive then sells on, and Ashcrole's clients would rather it did not.

Verrigan carries Ashcrole's retainer account and takes a fifth for standing between the agency and whoever is paying it. The ledger is kept in Corvantine form at a leased wharf two cells away, and no Amaseki court has yet ordered it produced.