Kin-Passage Home, Cold Hold

Job: fly one passenger home. A young dwarf named Bryn Ash-Braid just cleared a six-year berth indenture on a Khesret orbital, and her clan-mother's prepaid the whole trip back to Cold Hold — two hops, one past Hardfell Core, out to a hold the Concord charts don't even name. Comfort run, clean manifest, one grateful kid and her duffel. Good honest pay for a milk run to a place worth seeing.

Briefing: A Stone-Braid clan factor books you off a Hardfell kin-passage desk on Khesret. The passenger's paid up, papers stamped, and she will talk your ear off about a re-braiding rite waiting for her at home — the ceremony where a bond-cleared dwarf stops being the family's debt and starts being its kin. Ride her through Hardfell Core to Cold Hold, set down at the sea-cliff berths, hand her to her clan-mother Halda Stone-Braid at the rite-hall, and you've closed the contract and seen a proud hold that keeps its own books and never filed with the rings. Feed her, don't lose her, get her there in one warm piece.

Clock: soft — the rite's in a few days and the kid would very much like to make it. Terms: ₡4,800 gross, 10% desk fee, Rank 0. Easy money, a warm welcome, and a corner of the Corridor most crews never bother to fly to.