Chapter 21: 214 Names and What They Shared

The morning queue was light.

He had two cases pending from the previous evening — the Class Two and the Class One — and he cleared them before 0830 without incident. The Class Two involved an outer-rim construction output report that diverged from three colonial assessor testimonies by a consistent eighteen percent, the kind of divergence that was almost certainly a calibration artifact rather than deliberate construction, though the distinction made no difference to the classification or the archive destination. He logged it correctly. The Class One was a broadcast coverage metric. He logged that too.

At 0847 the queue was empty.