Jessa Halvek
Jessa knows how long a meal must last by counting the animals, not the soldiers.
The person
Jessa knows how long a meal must last by counting the animals, not the soldiers. She keeps reserve stores without telling the toll officers, considering rescue a prior claim on revenue. Her hidden accounts show that the chambers consume more fuel in warm years, contrary to the engineers’ reports.
Place in the family
Their children are Oren Halvek and Sella Halvek. Family authority does not settle the disagreement described above.
Sella sends food to Rose Citadel and redeems road workers’ tokens at face value.
Oren understands the pass machinery well enough to know it is failing and poorly enough to fear changing it.
The Halveks maintain the three highland passes and charge for the warmth that keeps them open.
Boren names shelter ledges after the people who built them, rejecting the numbered military charts.
A mountain garrison admitted wounded travelers from both sides and became a permanent hospice.
Hedra records the sound of furnace valves by making notches in a wooden flute.