A scene from the throne room

Entry 477: a hundred and forty windows at two favours and a ladder, the ladder already on loan to the cistern, so that clause is pending. The ledge holds the palace and not the windows, which is the sort of fact I'd rather have found in an audit than in conversation.

The preferred bidder was the carpenter, who is on the coast finishing a door and cannot be reached, which makes the sealed tender not sealed so much as unanswered. A stool, unstickered, is standing in for the bracket in the meantime, wobbling at the shoulder.