Chapter 15: Sera Dohn's Personnel File

PVB-5591-A was a class two.

The field health coordinator's testimony described a processing colony infirmary operating at three times its registered capacity, staff rotating on thirty-hour cycles, a supply requisition system that had not produced a confirmed delivery in eleven weeks. The Imperial administrative broadcast cited health service provision across the same colonial zone as meeting quarterly normative indices. The divergence was within the range Kael had come to recognize as deliberate — not an error, not a rounding artifact, but a specific kind of construction that required knowing the true figure in order to produce a false one at a credible distance from it.

He classified it, notated the methodology, tagged it for routing. The case disappeared from the queue at 1134. He did not watch it go.