Chapter 2: Bureau Orientation, Level Nine

The reception terminal was unstaffed.

Kael stood before it and read the Bureau designation plaque a second time, as though the words might clarify themselves through repetition. Propaganda Verification Bureau, Level Nine, Administrative District. The plaque was standard issue — the same grey-white composite as every other Bureau plaque he had encountered in eleven years. There was nothing in it to read.

He waited.