Nyx's report cost two copying charges and most of a day.
It confirmed less than the answer I could have demanded from a frightened clerk. That comparison stayed with me while I put the receipts beside the public closure notice.
She had brought the facts she could support. She had refused the person who might provide more. I didn't know why, and owning a way to hurt her hadn't made me know. The canceled commission remained canceled. The missing information concerned wider routes I wanted to see before they became dangerous.
Wanting that wasn't difficult to justify. I had justified the letter too.
Ren arrived while I was reading the same limited finding for the third time. He had the week's work account and a question about a morning delivery.
"If it arrives before I come, should the desk keep it?"
"What time are you coming?"
"After the meal bell. We agreed on that yesterday."
