The joint table at the north border mill has published a turn schedule with every exception dated and initialed by both delegations. The change follows a dispute over whether last season’s dry-week allowance had become a standing rule. Each side’s earlier copy described the same water turn differently.
The new ledger does not change the accord’s seasonal allocation. It records when the shared channel was opened, how long the mill ran and which delegation requested an exception. Grain delegates from Kharad Venn and Stonewater said they accepted the same method even though they still disagree about priority when both settlements need the mill during a dry spell.
The first paired entry confirms the hour used by each table, but not whether that division is fair in a season when one harvest comes in later. The next joint review is to compare the schedule with the scale slips from both sides of the flour table.
The ledger makes a promise auditable; it does not make the water more plentiful. For now, both settlements have a common record of the turns they took and a dated place to enter any exception. The next argument will be about the rule itself, not about which copy of it to trust.
