survey office
The one house in Scharte built of dressed stone, with a brass plate that says nothing and a map room on the first floor in which every attempt to chart the pass is pinned to the wall and every one ends at the same line. The Bureau appoints the night officer from here: a stranger, one night, a chit, a chair. The surveyor lives above the map room and keeps the instruments she has never been allowed to carry past the gate. Custom: the officer collects the chit here at dusk and returns it at first ...
Located in The Last Pass.