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''(Monthly reports sent to the [[Moot Hall]] clerk from [[Wehnimer's runner|Runner]] [[Nayli (prime)|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.

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