At the east stair, the first price board of the morning was already marked higher when Nella Voss opened the market scale book. The board gave buyers a number before the hall had weighed its first sack; the sealed chits that arrived with the carriers described a different part of the same trip.
Merchants said fewer loads had crossed the gate. Two carriers waiting beside the lower lift said their sacks had reached the cliff passage the prior evening but had not been raised before the night bell. Neither account, on its own, shows how much grain was available to buyers at the stall.
Voss, the morning exchange’s grain measure, records sacks weighed before first bell. The gate tally records arrivals; it does not show when a load left the lift queue. For this edition, the market clerk agreed to keep the sealed delivery chits beside the scale book rather than combine them into a single total.
The distinction matters to buyers who plan a week’s stores around a posted price and to merchants who must decide whether to hold a load for another exchange. A delayed sack and a missing sack look alike on a shelf, but call for different remedies.
The clerk’s next step is to publish gate and hall weights from the same day. Until then, the board records a rise; it does not say whether the cause began in the harvest or on the route into Kharad Venn.
