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Backchannel Shacks
Where the ledger ends, the river keeps trading.
Mournwater's flooded under-quarter trades cut saint-dust, forged purity seals and hidden passage. The Silt-Rooks keep its routes; the ledger declines to count its people.
Codex Ref. II.2.03-003
Crumble Ward
The casks leave clean; the people remain under observation.
Mournwater's quarantine district receives the dust-sick, debt-bound washers and inconvenient witnesses. The Sisters keep the treatment ledgers; observation lasts indefinitely.
Codex Ref. II.2.03-004
Crumble Ward Sisters
The cupboard holds mercy; the ledger keeps the patient
The Crumble Ward Sisters tend Mournwater's dust-sick, control the medicine cupboard and keep the ledger that decides who remains a patient and who becomes evidence.
Codex Ref. VIII.6.07-001
Crumble-Wrong
When saint-dust remembers the body and refuses commerce
At Mournwater, saint-dust settles into bones, ruins casks, fattens futures markets, and suggests that industrialized holiness has begun objecting.
Codex Ref. XIII.1.21-001
Graders' Quiet Union
The graders see the taint; the White Steps press the seal.
Mournwater's unchartered graders protect and sell the truth of taint, mark suspect casks, and keep the relic trade moving beneath seals they cannot press.
Codex Ref. XI.5.02-001
Mournwater
A town waiting for permission to breathe
Mournwater ships certified sanctity from the River-belt. Its coopers, graders and quarantine poor wait for a second bell that permits commerce to resume.
Codex Ref. II.2.03-002