Tavin counted beds before he counted carts.
On day1684, the trapped lower air reached the first occupied rooms beneath the outer yard. The new upper intake still worked within its current rating. The houses below it did not have that duct, that fan, or a right to borrow the workshop’s air merely because a drawing showed a route nearby.
The local keeper closed the lower sleeping rooms.
Forty-six people needed places above the haze.
The upper common house had forty-eight prepared sleeping places under the seasonal plan. Tavin walked through it before sending anyone. The water vessels were filled from the checked clean line. The stove had fuel. The washing screen stood. The outward doors opened. Two family groups needed their places arranged differently because one person could not manage the upper sleeping platform.
Neri moved the layout with the keeper.
She did not change the building’s structure. She changed who had to climb.
When Tavin returned, the lower beds were ready for the people who needed them most.
