When the record for The Dual Injury Reserve Charter was opened in both sides of the open Courtesy Arch during the Thursday contract session, Pella Rook, Ada Morland. Sister Merrow directed everyone’s attention to two matching iron-bound reserve ledgers. One kept in Sister Merrow’s parish charity chest in Lathmere, the other managed by bookkeeper Tamsin Drew at the Harrowby Community Credit Union. At the next full contract meeting across the threshold, the workshop establishes dedicated injury reserves on both sides. Sister Merrow holding the Lathmere chest and Tamsin Drew holding the Harrowby reserve. Beside them, Jo Saye, Imran Bell, Foreman Eren Tal, and Tamsin Drew (via signed Harrowby trust deed) double-checked the practical tolerances that governed the morning’s task.
The technical core of the dual injury reserve charter needed calculating a forced fifteen-percent gross surcharge on every workshop commission before any wages or supply costs were distributed, dedicated solely to sick-pay and medical care. 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.
“Ada’s seventeen-year-old nephew Ben asked a question last night that put every one of us to shame,” Pella announced to the full crew gathered around the pine table as she held up the new Contract Amendment slate. “He asked who pays the doctor and the rent if someone twists an ankle or breathes…
