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The Short Toll

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RANK ON COMPLETION: STONE CARRIER WEEK 4

THE BRIDGEWRIGHT: "Here is my favorite trick for a case like this: leave the coins alone for a minute and ask the planks. Wood keeps an honest count of every foot that crosses it. You already know how to read it."
TOBY LATCH: "Ninety crossings, eighty four tolls. Even my sandwich math says six coins walked off somewhere." JUNE PIER: "Your sandwich math is why the Yard exists, Latch. Subtract first, then snack."
THE STILLWATER LEDGERS // EPISODE 1 // THE SHORT TOLL
Span one. Morning fog on still water. The toll box says ninety crossings this week; the plank wear says more.
THE CASE Toll clerk Wilby Cranch logged ninety crossings and banked eighty four tolls. Six coins went somewhere the box never saw.
Filed by the quartermaster, Pippa George.
Crew name: Class key:
The run will not start without a name. Ten markers, three hint tiers each. Written work handed in class is the gate: no paper, no credit.

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