# Passage Keeper A **passage keeper** attends to the physical safety and customary use of a [common passage](page:74178). The role may rotate among households; it is not the office of a living House's Keeper. Closing a dangerous route does not, by itself, extinguish a right to cross. ## Authority and Limits The passage keeper inspects steps, reports damage, arranges warnings and asks the responsible households for repairs. Where a gate must be shut immediately, the keeper records why and who was told. They cannot turn an emergency closure into private ownership. ## A Local Story One story tells of a keeper who carried a warning board through three quarters before finding a place where everyone agreed it could stand. The story is repeated when a repair is simpler than deciding who may order it. --- ## Links here - [Common Passage](page:74178) - [Quarter](page:74177) - [Raven-Lest](page:57397) --- [All pages](https://wikilayer.org/smee-again/the-house-of-the-inner-wind/en/index.md)