Hedra Halvek
Hedra records the sound of furnace valves by making notches in a wooden flute.
The person
Hedra records the sound of furnace valves by making notches in a wooden flute. She can hear a failing seal before a gauge changes. Her brother’s discoveries excite her, but she refuses to shut down the machinery until alternate shelters exist. She has begun constructing them with workers whose wages are already overdue.
Place in the family
A child of Oren Halvek and Miren Halvek; part of the youngest recorded generation of House Halvek.
Miren leads the winter supply train herself, carrying medicine in the warm space beneath her coat.
The Halveks maintain the three highland passes and charge for the warmth that keeps them open.
Oren understands the pass machinery well enough to know it is failing and poorly enough to fear changing it.
A failed chamber exposed a child’s shoe fused into the oldest furnace slag.
A measurable craft that moves existing heat through prepared vessels and living roots.
Meret married into the crown while working as a nursery grafting apprentice.