Noll Halvek
Noll knows which pack animals refuse the eastern tunnel and which merely dislike its echo.
The person
Noll knows which pack animals refuse the eastern tunnel and which merely dislike its echo. One old mule will cross only when its bells are muffled. He thinks the tunnel answers particular notes. Nobody has tested his idea because the furnace officials consider animals poor witnesses and children worse.
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.
Hedra records the sound of furnace valves by making notches in a wooden flute.
Meret married into the crown while working as a nursery grafting apprentice.
Sena marks ropes with colored threads identifying the crews who made them.