The Tidemark Accord · Curated example · Read only
Tovan Reed
A rescue captain who knows which orders people will actually follow.
Tovan keeps the names of every person his crews failed to reach in the inside cover of his tide book. He refuses to turn it into a memorial displayed for visitors. The list is a working document: each name sits beside a changed procedure or an unanswered question.
His Third Sounding Crew has located a route to the engine. He will escort engineers there, but will not arrest the Saltstairs residents accompanying them. If the council insists, it must replace him publicly and find someone who can persuade the crew to launch.
A civic rescue force with weapons it must account for separately.
An apprentice chartmaker recording who actually uses the newly exposed streets.
A first session in which a rescue becomes a public question.
Where a ship can become timber, a home, and a new ship in the same week.
A practical mediator discovering that procedure cannot absolve her.
An archivist whose most dangerous skill is asking for the second copy.