Posted time & Keeper commitments
Why routes, shifts, courses, and long care work publish a duration before a Keeper commits to them.
Basin institutions learned early that a posted clock is more useful than a promise to be quick. Wayhouses, employers, schools, and sanctuaries therefore publish expected durations before accepting a Keeper’s commitment.
Keeper Handbook procedure →Journey commitments
Long-distance travel is treated as an actual absence from the origin, not paperwork completed in advance. A Keeper booked onto a route is expected to settle other public commitments before departure and remains attached to the route until arrival is recorded.
Work and study
Employers and schools use posted durations so Keepers can choose work that fits the time they genuinely have. Short shifts are common in Mirecross; specialist courses and industrial orders can occupy much longer blocks.
Care takes its own time
Training, recovery, play, foraging, and other bond work are recorded separately from ordinary employment. Sanctuary staff are particularly hostile to the idea that recovery should speed up merely because somebody has become impatient.