Nayli (prime)/Runner's Reports: 5126

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Title: Runner's Reports

Author: Nayli

(Monthly reports sent to the Moot Hall clerk from Runner Nayli Valen.)

Phoenatos 5126

Runs:

• Southern leg: 3. Out second, in ninth. Out eleventh, in twentieth. Out twenty-second, in thirty-first. Northern Caravansary, Hangman's Bridge, Vornavis Caravansary, Peasant Holdings, Marshtown, Solhaven & South Haven each time. Gate of Vornavis each time, handoff only

• Near country: 5. Hendoran Outpost tenth & twenty-first. Voln monastery twenty-first, same day. Northern Caravansary twenty-fifth, half a day. Darkstone settlement, twenty-sixth to twenty-seventh

Account:

• Ninety-four sealed

• Fourteen purses counted & receipted both ends

• Nine spoken, given & repeated back

• Eighty-one sealed & receipted. Six handed at Vornavis gate. Seven for the Darkstone settlement, unreceipted

Against last month:

• Darkstone settlement will not receipt. Last month the camp quartermaster signed for everything without discussion. This month he says he cannot sign for the Barony because there is a question in Tamzyrr whether there is a Barony, & he will not put his name to a thing that may not exist. Volume to that camp is up by one-third on last month.

• Halvers at Vornavis Caravansary has stopped forwarding Merchant Guild freight onward. Last month he took it without comment. I asked him straight on the first run. He says he has not been paid since Charlatos & will not carry us on credit twice. Two of ours had the same from him.

• Water between Northern Caravansary & Cairnfang has cut a new channel, west of the stones. Chest-high at my first crossing, thigh by the fourth, ankle by the sixth. It is falling, so it looks harmless now. It is not - at next rain it comes up west of where a man expects it. I recommend rerouting.

Exceptions:

• Second & third southern runs came in two days over, each. Both are Halvers & I would not leave Hall freight with a man who is not forwarding, so I carried it to Solhaven myself. Desk may take four days from my claim if it judges that wrong.

• Peasant Holdings, sealed packet refused: the holding is worked but the man named on it has gone. Neighbor says he is not dead, only gone, but gives no new address. Packet returned with this.

Asked of desk:

• Person at the Darkstone settlement whose signature the Hall will accept while question in Tamzyrr is open. Until there is one I am carrying parcels I cannot discharge.

Standing entries:

• Sealed items for inside Vornavis are handed at the gate, receipted by watchmen whose names I do not have & could not use. I cannot enter the city & this will not change. Seals are intact when they leave me. After the gate it is not mine & I cannot say. Ninth month I have written this.

• Northern route went to Marven while I was south. I am not disputing it. I would like it back when I am next standing.