Location: Corran — the Temple grain store, and a barn on the Kaelport road
Date: 11–12 Emberwane 9943 AZI, Grindday to Restday
Realm: Lower Realm
Barley went into a sack well or badly, and you could tell which with your hand.
Vukan Sered had his palm flat on the fortieth sack in the Corran store and was feeling for the give in it. A sack filled well was firm all the way down, the grain settled and packed, and it took the weight of a hand without moving. A sack filled badly had air in the top quarter, and the air was where a carter's thumb went, and after a season of thumbs there was a column on a page somewhere that did not agree with the floor.
This one was firm. A mark went in the ledger, and he moved on to the forty-first.
