At the dry herb room behind the public infirmary, Meri Sarn keeps the interim review file beside a shelf kept clear beneath the drip line from the upper stone seam. 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.
Meri Sarn is the keeper of the city’s dried-herb reserve. On this deep winter visit, the work begins with the reserve labels and the healers’ weekly issue notes; only after the entry is checked can the crew say what the rule asks of the people below.
9 bundles still within their marked use period were entered this cycle, compared with 9 in the prior file. The figure is one part of a longer handoff. Runa Ash checked the reserve labels and the healers’ weekly issue notes against the field notes. The method is to separate available stock from stock that can reach a patient in time; it confirms the entries, but not every interpretation attached to them.
The central store is dry but distant; the neighborhood cabinets are faster to reach but vary in temperature. 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.
A new complaint or proposal has been entered under a dated docket. The entry belongs to the interim review file at the dry herb room behind the public infirmary. Two cabinets will be monitored through the next deep-winter cycle. The next visit will show whether the revision travels beyond the office that wrote it.
