Eda Korrin opens the public works docket and the surveyor’s marked elevation sheets at the Upper Chamber of Measures. Before anyone moves a cart or changes a mark, the crew checks the handrail that narrows where the old stair meets a newer stone landing. The grain fall air brings its own pace to the passage.
The latest page holds 37 permit applications. Eda Korrin reads the previous count (40) before the next mark is made. It is a small pause, long enough for the people at the rail to hear what the number leaves out.
The proposed alignment shortens the climb for upper homes but leaves less turning room for freight carriers. The current record does not settle that disagreement. The difference between those accounts is visible here: a rule on the board and a working condition just beyond it.
The affected crew has tried the revised procedure under ordinary working conditions. The entry belongs to the review week file at the Upper Chamber of Measures. The next check will be made by another crew, asked to repeat the measure without borrowing the first crew’s conclusion.
When the shift closes, the file remains beside the marked place. A second survey must test the turning radius with loaded handcarts. Until then, the route, schedule or allotment stays as it was at the opening bell.
