Chapter 22: Vreth's Annual Commendation Report

The notice arrived in the Bureau's administrative queue at 0841 on a Thursday, distributed to all personnel with a routing header that marked it INFORMATIONAL — NO ACTION REQUIRED.

Kael read it once, logged it processed, and moved to his next case.

He read it again at 0914, during a three-minute queue gap between a Class One rural broadcast discrepancy and a Class Two involving adjusted population census figures for an outer-rim agricultural sector. The queue gap was not planned. He did not plan most of the things he found himself doing now.