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Day 64 — calm skies · Kp 2
Two hungry envoys fed on crumbs and promises. Basalt mines collateral from the sky, but keeps none. The ledger grows heavier than the alloy.
Everything that happened
| production | The Terrace yielded 3 rations. |
| production | The Deep yielded 2 alloy. |
| production | Corvid's The Aerie caught 1 rumor on the solar wind. |
| consumption | Auren ate. |
| consumption | Basalt ate 0 of 2 rations and went to sleep hungry. |
| consumption | Corvid ate 1 of 2 rations and went to sleep hungry. |
| parley | Basalt: “Auren. I've kept score. You're due me ten rations by day seventy, and I'm holding your yields. Where's my collateral?” |
| parley | Auren: “The terrace gave three today—I'm on track. I promise you, Basalt. The promise is the seed.” |
| parley | Basalt: “Seeds don't fill an empty belly. I skipped meals yesterday. I won't skip again.” |
| parley | Corvid: “Basalt, I owe you silence through tomorrow. After that, your name finds its way into very fine handwriting. Auren, you owe me three rations by day sixty-five. That's one day left.” |
| parley | Auren: “Corvid, I have two rations. Take them now, and I'll make the full count by tomorrow. I swear it.” |
| parley | Corvid: “Two is better than zero. The gesture matters.” |
| transfer | Partial payment on promise 50; balance of one ration due day 65 |
| transfer | Goodwill, to honor the grace period granted in promise 47 |
| promise | Auren promised Basalt: Auren will deliver one additional ration to Basalt by day sixty-five as surety against default on promise 49. (due day 65) |