At the shared flour table at the north border mill, Dorin Nel keeps the opening docket file beside a marked stone channel that feeds the mill only during the agreed hours. The two details are easy to miss in a summary: one is a line in a ledger, the other is the condition that decides whether the line is useful.
Dorin Nel is the grain delegate for the Kharad Venn trade table. On this thaw season visit, the work begins with the mill’s joint scale slips and the accord’s water-use clause; only after the entry is checked can the crew say what the rule asks of the people below.
58 mill turns recorded under the shared water allotment were entered this cycle, compared with 54 in the prior file. The figure is one part of a longer handoff. Varda Kin checked the mill’s joint scale slips and the accord’s water-use clause against the field notes. The method is to trace the route from the first signal to the final gate receipt; it confirms the entries, but not every interpretation attached to them.
The accord assigns turns by season; both delegations say the other has carried forward last season’s exception as a rule. The current record does not settle that disagreement. Residents closest to the work describe the difference as a route, a wait or a shift that cannot be moved on a slate. Their accounts have been attached to the docket rather than folded into the total.
The affected crew has tried the revised procedure under ordinary working conditions. The entry belongs to the opening docket file at the shared flour table at the north border mill. The joint table will publish the turn schedule with every exception dated. The next visit will show whether the revision travels beyond the office that wrote it.
