Anet Tern
Anet grafts plum branches and keeps a diary of flowering dates beside the family’s political arguments.
The person
Anet grafts plum branches and keeps a diary of flowering dates beside the family’s political arguments. Her trees now blossom in the order of the irrigation gates, rather than their varieties. Adults call this a charming observation. She has mapped it carefully enough to predict which orchard will fail next.
Place in the family
A child of Mara Tern and Saren Tern; part of the youngest recorded generation of House Tern.
Saren prints Assembly minutes on cheap orchard-fiber paper and leaves space for corrections.
House Tern is a family, not a legal dynasty: Mara holds an elected office and her children inherit no seat.
Mara still brings a ferry stool to the Assembly, making the office appear humbler than the influence behind 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.