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The Second Column
A north-country guild breeds cold as a crop: it sows frost into prepared ground in autumn, draws it down into granite voids cut into a hillside, and sells it at a market by the yard, in bars, in rink-plates, in whole hired winters.
- ~172 min (estimated)
- 38006 words
- 62 scenes
- 14 branch points (script estimate)
- 5 endings (script estimate)
36 recorded plays (one per visitor per day)
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About
This year the sown ground is coming up thin and warm, the voids are drawing down slow, and the guild's own Assay Book — which records every degree and every grade to two decimal places for two hundred years — says the harvest should be the best in living memory. The woman who holds the pen has twenty-two years of signed grade lines and has never once written down why, and the Book has never once had a column where a why could go. The Coldmark is a grey shoulder of granite above a long frozen river valley in the far north country. The sun clears the ridge for four hours a day in midwinter and the daylight is the colour of watered tin. Eleven long low stone houses stand in a row with iron ballast on the roofs and a shuttered air-well cut into each north face and a lamp burning in it from Michaelmas to Candlemas, because a wright who sleeps in a cold house after a season in a live void does
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- No sexual content beyond that implication. No sexual violence. No coercion that is rewarded.
Cast
- H Halla Rimewright no portrait yet
- B Bram Ostmark no portrait yet
- I Ilva Sorne no portrait yet
- S Sura Vane no portrait yet
- A Ansel Rime no portrait yet
- G Gerta Hollis no portrait yet
- M Marek Ostmark no portrait yet