Ninth Bell
The principal town and transit hub of the Pale Hours, organized around paired clocks and high-valley movement.
The settlement added a ninth civic bell after eight proved insufficient for reconciling local work time with correspondence from the basin below.
Paired time
Appointments carry clock designations, station boards show more than one time reference, and visitors complain until they miss something important.
Town life
Bell maintenance is treated as infrastructure. Snow is packed into walls against wind, and ordinary errands acquire a layer of timing that lower towns rarely need.
