Shizuhana

Shizuhana still discounts Emberrun barge bills at seven per cent and posts the ledger at the shrine bridge, and Serathorne's customs yard still honours the paper. Since the roll closed the yard has taken a fifth of each bill in cash and has given no reason for the change.

Yatagaru has offered three times for the whole Shizuhana loan book at eleven coppers for each gold coin of face value, and each offer came back sealed by an office with no name under it. Yatagaru's house now buys the bills singly off the barge masters at nine, and nothing at the landing has been said against it.

The counting-house and its staff of forty eat Gundvarr grain, and since the roll closed the granary has sold to Shizuhana for cash at the gate and nothing on account. Shizuhana pays and posts the transaction, which is more than two warm houses at Quellborne manage.

Lysathiel has taken over the Emberrun informant lines Shizuhana ran before the roll closed, paying the same men out of Lysathiel on the same quarter days. Shizuhana's ledgers still enter the payments as outgoing, which is either a clerk's habit or a claim, and Lysathiel has left the question alone.

Lysathiel bought Shizuhana's Emberrun paper at forty in the hundred the year that plate went cold, and holds first claim on the landing dues. A clerk goes up from Lysathiel every quarter to establish who is still answering the door at Shizuhana and on whose authority.

Sarventhal holds a 12,000-silver bond of Shizuhana's drawn before the last name went out of the house, and sends a clerk down the north road every third year to have it read at the gate. The ledgers at Shizuhana are still posted monthly by staff nobody has authority over, and Sarventhal copies them because they are the only account of the Emberrun landing anyone can obtain.