The Nimbus Bench entered the Pike sale at 262,519 bits and split it between Sable Pike and her daughter, Tess Pike. The cloud cottage on lane three, outer bank, Cloudsdale, goes to the buyer named in the order. The late shift remains on the cot in the capacitor room.
The cottage is 2 racks, 1 stove, and a porch. Race stewards chalked the porch as a sightline in season 11. A seal went on the door 4 seasons ago, when Pike v. Pike was filed. The night sheet kept running. The rack stayed empty.
Crew chief Hollis Brack has held the late sheet for 11 seasons. The missed nights are on the slip.
"We ran 6 nights short and 14 with a cot in the capacitor room," Brack said. "I put the 3rd on the slip. Nopony from the director's office asked for the slip."
The posted sheet had called for a 12-minute cell, wind 18 at the lane, moving east off the outer bank. Brack's second pair stages at the lower bank when the cottage is sealed, which is 9 minutes of winging before the updraft. The factory board logged the cell at minute 0. His slip logged it at minute 40. A dawn clerk corrected the board to "crew delay" and left the door off the line.
Director Calven Moor stayed at the factory for the closing. His office sent one sentence. It called the sale "an orderly private result, consistent with housing standards." The standards note runs 3 pages. It names no rack, no night, and no lane.
Sable Pike has been housing-compliance clerk beside Moor's office for 9 seasons. Her first filing called the cottage a factory-adjacent asset and attached a housing circular from that office, season 8, authorizing "retention of family stock where it serves the approach." The circular names no address. Tess Pike flew reserve for 2 seasons and never made the poster. She asked the Bench for a sale in season 2. Her answer ran 2 pages and a key count: 1 door, 2 racks, 0 factory seals before the suit. She kept the old keys in a tin with the lane passes. Magistrate Wynn Calder read both filings into the record at hearing 4 and left them there. On the steps after the closing, Sable Pike said the result "honors the house and the chain of responsibility." The compliance file shows 6 inspections at the cottage. All 6 were set during the late shift's off week.
Calder ordered the sale at hearing 19. Windfall Margin read the tally for the Bench. Gross sale, 310,040 bits. Recorded costs, 47,521. Net, 262,519. The other 5,641 bits were the lien and the transfer stamp. Half of the net is 131,259 and a half. A bit does not split. Calder set hearing 20 for the half-bit. It ran 11 minutes. The half-bit went to the court pantry fund. Both Pikes signed the receipt.
Pellin Shore ran third flight when the poster pair was booked for demonstrations. Shore's name is off the board by the academy gate.
"I used rack two when Tess still had the key, before the seal," Shore said. "One pony, one kit. They measured the porch for the picture line. The rack never got a number. I was 4th in the lane trial by a length and a hoof. The time sheet is in the drawer."
The Wonderbolt press office put out a note the morning of the closing. It ran 86 words. It said the team "respects the privacy of all families and remains committed to excellence on the approach." The note names no pony who asked that the porch stay clear for aerial pictures. A clerk at the office called the request "a line from the old form" and gave no season.
The buyer takes the cottage on the 1st. Next week's late sheet lists 7 ponies and 1 rack still down in the capacitor room. Brack's monthly slip is in the drawer under the lane. The press note is filed under team housing.
Of the 47,521 bits marked as recorded costs, 41,880 were fees in Pike v. Pike.
The next cell on lane three went up with the same marks: wind 18, east, a 12-minute window, staging from the lower bank. Brack's pair winged the 9 minutes and put minute 40 on the slip again. The factory board stayed at minute 0. The dawn clerk's line read "crew delay."
"Seven names on the sheet," Brack said. "I counted the cot this morning. Still one."
The quartering chit for the 14 cot nights bills the late shift 40 bits a night. Sable Pike initialed the chit in her ninth season as housing-compliance clerk. The initials are on all 14 lines. The chit totals 560 bits.