# Turn 001 Results — Ridgeford

## The month

Evin's red rope stays across the western approach. For the first two days, no one crosses there—not a worker, not a goat, not an empty sledge. The visible closure and your public safety order end the argument at the bank long enough for an inspection to begin.

Dorr, Evin, and their two chosen workers examine the face from secured positions while Mara's witnesses watch from the approach. They find fresh scour beneath the western work, but water is not the whole explanation. Several older toe stones are absent. The exposed faces and tool marks show that stones were worked out before the recent damage.

That finding does not identify who gave the order. Dorr says winter repairs elsewhere may have drawn stone from more than one place and insists that the remaining core matters more than accusation. Evin answers that a crossing cannot be maintained if no one records what is removed. Neither man abandons the work, but their disagreement is now public and specific.

The core is too compromised for cattle this month. Dorr's crew removes loose facing from above, recovers usable stone, and rebuilds the worst load-bearing pocket. Evin controls lines, current markers, and each test. Late in the month the repaired section holds repeated unladen and light-load crossings. People and small necessities can pass under Evin's limits. Cattle remain behind the rope.

## Who acted

Sila accepts the closure because the herding households receive the inspection account, a voice in the work, and an honest answer instead of an opening date. Her fodder count is less comfortable: waiting through another full month without new grazing would put the leanest animals at risk. She has begun marking a possible alternate stock route for a proper foot inspection.

Mara releases grain only to the approved work rotation. Her ledger lists each household, measure, and day. The count prevents the stone crews from being accused of taking private payment, but it also makes the repair's real food cost impossible to dismiss.

Orra keeps the necessary carpenters on leaking roofs and drainage. Some nonurgent work waits, but the crossing does not strip Ridgeford of every skilled hand.

Pell and one companion leave only after the core crews are staffed. They return within their provision rule after meeting a Northbarrow scout. Northbarrow also needs spring access toward the wider meadow. Its leader, Oren, is prepared to send a limited work party if Ridgeford will make the inspection findings, access terms, and timetable witnessed and public. Pell makes no promise on your behalf.

## What changed

- The western approach is stabilized against immediate collapse.
- Controlled foot and light-load passage resumes under Evin's limits.
- The crossing remains closed to cattle.
- Worked gaps where older toe stones were removed are now observable; responsibility remains unresolved.
- The repair used measured worker grain and a bounded labor rotation.
- Sila's count establishes a short remaining fodder horizon.
- Northbarrow has offered labor in exchange for witnessed access terms; no agreement exists yet.

## What you learned

The recent water worsened the damage, but it acted on a crossing already weakened by earlier stone removal. A durable repair will require a record of what the river takes and what people take.

Northbarrow's cattle households face a version of Ridgeford's own problem. Their offer could add workers and route knowledge, but it also turns the crossing timetable into a matter watched beyond your settlement.

## Matters requiring attention

- Decide whether to pursue a larger cattle-safe rebuild or an inspected alternate stock route.
- Address the missing toe stones without treating physical evidence as proof of who authorized their removal.
- Set terms for Northbarrow before accepting its labor.
- Protect the remaining fodder and the leanest animals.
- Decide whether the witnessed crossing ledger and post-flood inspection should continue beyond this emergency.