Imran shows Sal the stone-salt data from the Series L-4 vials and establishes a separate test chemical account paid for by the workshop so no Harrowby client funds are ever mixed with Lathmere work. She stood inside Secondary Testing Hood #2 in the back room of the Harrowby lab. Imran Bell and Sal Bell set a separate blue-bound test chemical ledger and a locked tray of glass sample vials marked PRIVATE CONSULTING. SERIES L-4 where the lantern light fell cleanest across the work surface. Meanwhile, Tamsin Drew (accountant for the workshop reserve) checked the entry under the heading of The Shared Answering Rota and Sample Log.
The technical core of the shared answering rota and sample log needed auditing the exact cost of distilled water, silver-test drops, and filter papers so the Courtesy Workshop reimbursed Bell & Bell to the penny. Throughout this phase of the quiet domestic realities noticed in Harrowby, the crew held fast to protecting family commitments and honest day-job schedules. Every brass fitting, every stitched seam. Every thirty-minute lunch crossing had to answer to physical measurement rather than guild politics.
“Look at the iron-sulfate-to-stone-glass ratio in Vial L-4-Seven, Sal,” Imran said. He slid the spectrographic printout across the lab bench after locking in the new phone forwarding schedule. “Whoever engineered the foundation drain where this sample came from is running high-heat pressure cycles through deep metabasalt clay without venting the gas.”
