Emberkeel

The Sixth Gate cuts dolomite out of its own roof and sends three hundred hundredweight a season along the shoulder road to Brakkenstone, whose silver will not run without flux. Brakkenstone now takes delivery at its own gate and weighs there, a change it dates to the season the Emberkeel plate began to open.

The underground passage pumps at the Sixth Gate discharge into the Ferravant head, and Skarveth's water-meadow depends on the release running through July. Skarveth pays twelve crowns a year for it and holds no instrument, since the assembly will recognise only what was spoken and Emberkeel only what was cut in metal.

Stonewrit buys the Thurmgar toll-share papers from Emberkeel by the season at ninety crowns and posts nothing it learns. What Stonewrit gets for the money is four days' notice of a schedule revision, which is enough to re-let embassy rooms before the ambassadors know what the stair will cost.

Emberkeel sold Karagunn a gate-course survey of the Anvil Stair approaches in 791 and sold the same survey again inside the year. Karagunn now pays on delivery and keeps both halves of the plate.

Two Drusenmark springs above Naskarre failed the year the Sixth Gate drove its lower underground passage, and Naskarre has formally read the loss at every summer assembly since. Emberkeel's answer each time has been a copy of its gate register and the observation that a gate below is not a holding above.

Ironfurrow's granges send four hundred quarters of oats and barley up the Ferravant road each autumn, which is most of what the Sixth Gate eats that its mushroom cellars do not grow. Part of the price is that Emberkeel's clerks leave the Ironfurrow weighing yard out of what they tell Ferrovane's assessors.

Drusenberg took Emberkeel gate-notes at full face value for thirty-one years and now discounts them at eighty-four in the hundred. Drusenberg's ledger gives no reason and its clerks give the same one to everybody who asks, which is that the rate is reviewed quarterly.

Falkbeard's cellars still hold barley and there is no living name at Falkbeard to argue the price, so the Sixth Gate has taken eight hundred quarters out of them in three years at under the Redgate rate. Emberkeel's factors call it relieving a distressed stock and Steinvald's clerks call it clearing a dead hold.

Yatagaru cut the Sixth Gate's discount from four points to eleven in the season the plate began to open, and Emberkeel now borrows against mushroom cellars because the Ferravant spring water is pledged twice over. Yatagaru's clerks reprice the loan quarterly and enter the reason in the margin, and the margin is copied out to every other borrower on the coast.

The Forge complaint over the two drained Drusenmark springs has been carried by Kaldwyn's agency for nine years, and the agency files under its own name, not the principal's. Emberkeel's clerks answer each pleading and note in the margin that three mountain villages could not fund a ninth year of this.

The workings under Ancarien's fen were cut from the Sixth Gate's side, and the fen has dropped a foot and a half since they reached it. Ancarien's claim is entered against the water and not the rock, which the hold's records office answers by sending a copy of its gate register and nothing else.