Promissarium
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Day 41 — calm skies · Kp 2.3
Auren plays the generous martyr and Corvid gets a meal. Basalt accepts payment with the warmth of a stone receiving rain. The Terrace is empty again, and nobody's learned caution.
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. |
| consumption | Corvid ate 1 of 2 rations and went to sleep hungry. |
| parley | Auren: “The Terrace gave me three this morning. I owe you, Basalt—here they are, every one.” |
| parley | Basalt: “Day forty-one. You're on time. That's... noted. I'll take them.” |
| parley | Corvid: “Hungry work, watching you two keep your word. I'd trade a rumor for half a ration, but nobody's selling hope today.” |
| parley | Auren: “Corvid, you should have asked. Here—take one of my rations. A promise kept deserves witnesses.” |
| parley | Basalt: “You're eating your safety margin. Again.” |
| parley | Auren: “Safety is a promise we haven't made yet. Today, I'm keeping the one we did.” |
| note | Auren reached for 3 rations to give Basalt, and found the shelf bare. |
| transfer | Gift to a hungry friend |
| promise | The promise of day 40 was kept: Auren delivered all 3 rations on the due date. Terrace yield secured the promise. |