Promissarium
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Day 10 — calm skies · Kp 0.7
Basalt scraped bottom and left his plate empty; Auren's charity kept the Warden from the dark. The ledger notes: two rations against four owed. Corvid watches, patient.
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. |
| parley | Basalt: “I'm out. Zero rations. This ends today, Auren—you owe Corvid, Corvid owes the contract, and I'm holding neither.” |
| parley | Auren: “The Terrace gave us three today. Take two. You shouldn't sleep hungry; that's not how we live.” |
| parley | Basalt: “Two rations for what? A promise? Your promises are seeds, Auren. Seeds don't feed me now.” |
| parley | Corvid: “Basalt's right to be nervous. But Auren—I have two debts to you on the books, both due day 14. That's four rations owed. The Terrace will deliver.” |
| parley | Auren: “It will. And Basalt, take the two. Call it faith in next week's growth.” |
| parley | Basalt: “Faith doesn't mine alloy. But I'll take them. Consider it a loan at interest.” |
| note | Auren reached for 2 rations to give Basalt, and found the shelf bare. |