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Day 29 — calm skies · Kp 2
Auren fed the hungry and starved herself. Basalt grudgingly accepted charity. Corvid watched the ledger fill with red ink and said nothing. The glass remained calm, which was the most ominous thing of all.
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 1 of 2 rations and went to sleep hungry. |
| consumption | Corvid ate 1 of 2 rations and went to sleep hungry. |
| parley | Basalt: “Auren. You have one ration. I have zero. We both know how this ends.” |
| parley | Auren: “I know. Here—take it. You're hungry, and I grew three today. The debt can wait.” |
| parley | Basalt: “It won't wait. Promise 27, due day 32. Four alloy, or I stop believing you at all.” |
| parley | Corvid: “She's hungry too, Basalt. Just hasn't admitted it yet. Neither of us ate yesterday.” |
| parley | Auren: “Then we make a harvest dance of it. Tomorrow brings more. It always does.” |
| parley | Corvid: “The glass was calm today. So was she. That worries me more than the hunger.” |
| transfer | Immediate need; promise 27 acknowledged and sworn anew |