Wraymoor

Wraymoor discounts Isperil's retainer bills at eighteen per cent, which is what a plate-reader's fee paper fetches when the house behind it is hair-trigger. Wraymoor is hair-trigger too, and notes in the margin of every bill that a default by either would be the act of a whole line.

Wraymoor advanced six hundred bars against two seasons of portage receipts, then took the second season's take when the first came in short. Talionwe is suing at the free ports over a pledge collected twice, and all three of Wraymoor's names are on the pleadings.

Talionwe lodges a certified copy of every Sixtongue factoring agreement at Wraymoor, since a Corvantine magistrate will not hear what a records office cannot produce, and Wraymoor keeps the Corvantine records office below the ridge. The fee is small, and that cabinet is most of the reason a house of three names is left alone on that shore.

Wraymoor bought a bundle of Solmiryn paper cheap at a free-port sale and presents one coupon at the Forge every year to keep the claim from going stale. The same clerk has made the presentation for thirty years, and he is one of the three names at Wraymoor.

Thalassil buys its flour and its seed corn at Wraymoor's gate, a stilt hall on tidal silt growing reed and eels and no bread at all. Thalassil holds that the mill water channel took eleven acres of reed grazing when it was cut, and says so at the gate every time the toll is paid.

The Sixtongue harbour court has heard the water channel case in four languages and adjourned it in all of them. Wraymoor lodges a certified copy of the original grant at each sitting and Thalassil brings the men who can recite the reed beds as they stood, and the court's written record is kept in a fifth language neither house pleads in.

Hard bread for the pilot hulks is baked at Wraymoor and goes out with the casks of drinking water, four hundredweight a month in season. Wraymoor bills in coin and Quorravel pays in cargo, so the account is reconciled twice a year and comes out different every time.

Verrigan endorsed Wraymoor's paper at the free ports and Wraymoor endorsed Verrigan's, and neither endorsement went to Ferrovane's records office. A bill came back last year, the records office will not hear either house on it, and two Corvantine counting houses are now suing each other in a court that sits in four languages.

Wraymoor's tide-mill grinds the Ward's coast wheat on toll, one sack in twenty, and Aldemarch's carts come down the Solmarch bank because no other mill below the ridge will work to a survey measure. Wraymoor eats out of that toll and buys nothing it can avoid buying.

Lysathiel re-discounts Wraymoor's acceptances at a rate that prices three names rather than the sum on the paper, and holds the records office's own vault as security. Wraymoor copies every instrument twice, once for the Corvantine records office and once for Lysathiel's clerks, and pays for both copies.