Last year's waterline is still clear on every pillar, but this year's sits a hand's width lower. Now I understand why every mouth quoting water prices at the market said the same thing.

• Old Man HazramCount for sixty years and you'll find water never lies. The counter does.
  JeharOld man, say that again tonight for me. I've somewhere to write it down.
• DanilThe cistern's grate key hangs in the Scale Chamber.
  JeharSo that's why my feet kept wandering that way today.