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The Weighing
A story from The Malfoid Universe
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27 scenes · 3 endings
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Scenes 27
Endings 3
Universe The Malfoid Universe
Mione
Malfoid
Porter
Corvina
The estate's arrears are payable under an 1809 assize in pounds of the debtor's own body, weighed on a brass scale in the hall, in front of the parish. The clause permits the weight to be split between two volunteers. Malfoid has one body and no money, and the scale opens on the last night of the quarter.
The document gets them into the room. The countdown means they cannot leave. The sex is what happens because they are both there and neither of them is any good at talking.
Chapters
1
Arrears
The estate owes eleven thousand and has owed it since 1809, and the assize attached to the debt has been re...
2
The Hall
The scale has been in the hall since before the hall had a roof and nobody has ever taken it down, because ...
3
The Marks
The flagstones in front of the scale are covered in tally marks, scored in with something harder than chalk...
4
The Assessor
Corvina is the assessor because the assessor has to be an officer of the school and there is exactly one of...
5
Two Hundredweight
The schedule does not ask for eleven thousand pounds of money. It asks for a sum in weight, and the sum is ...
6
Before The Parish
The assize says before the parish. The parish is a village of two hundred people who have disliked this hou...
7
The Arithmetic
Malfoid does the sum on the back of the schedule four times and gets the same answer four times and does no...
8
The Last Night
The scale opens at dusk on the thirty-first and closes at midnight, and it does not open again until the qu...
9
Consent, On The Record
Corvina writes it down, because an assize that runs on consent has to have the consent on paper or it is ju...
10
Behind The Screen
The parish arrives at eight. Forty people, a churchwarden, two Ministry clerks, and a woman from the villag...
11
The Scale Takes Skin
The assize requires the pan to touch skin, four points, both feet and both hands, or the weight does not re...
12
Four Points
She stands on the pan with her hands flat on the brass and her feet apart and the pan sinks two inches and ...
13
What It Takes
The scale does not take weight from standing. That is the discovery of the evening, and it is made by watch...
14
The First Hundred
It is not tender and it is not for the parish and it is not even really for each other, which is the thing ...
15
The Parish Hears
There is a particular silence a room makes when forty people are pretending not to listen, and the hall mak...
16
The Reading
At half past ten the left pan is low and the right pan is high and the total stands at sixty-one pounds of ...
17
Your Turn
You get on the other pan because there is a schedule and a clock and a girl who is going to fall off hers.
18
Ninety-One
What the scale actually takes is the last of your strength, so the last of your strength is what you spend,...
19
The Beam Levels
At three minutes to twelve the beam is level and Corvina reads out two hundred and the parish behind the sc...
20
The Left Pan
The village woman with the stool is the last to leave and she stops at the scale and looks at the tally mar...
21
What Is Left
The estate is clear. The school is safe until the next assize and there will not be a next assize, because ...
22
The Clause About The Pan
The second schedule says the scale shall stand in the hall in perpetuity as surety for the next debt, and t...
23
The Morning After
In the morning the hall smells of brass and sweat and the screen is stacked against the wall and the scale ...
24
The Hall, In Daylight
The clerk arrives at nine with a satchel and a copy of the schedule and finds four people standing around a...
25
Ending — The Surety
The scale stays. It is bolted through the roof and it is a listed instrument and there are three separate c...
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26
Ending — The Hook
It comes down in an afternoon with the hook and a mallet and a great deal of swearing, and the beam bends o...
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27
Ending — The Next Debt
They keep it, and in January they put a blanket on the pan and pay a debt that does not exist, because a sc...
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