He did not answer her in the corridor, which is the first thing that has to be said about the week that followed. He told her he would answer in a room with Yenna in it, then went up the stair without saying anything else.
Jia has called that the worst four hours of the nineteen days plus the only correct thing he did. A man who answers a demand in a corridor has decided something about who else is entitled to hear it.
The three of them sat down in the yard office at the fourth hour of the following afternoon, with the door shut. Luna sat at the end of the table with the grey book open, the relay switched off at the wall for the first hour in nineteen days.
A witness in this operation is a procedure rather than an audience, which is why the woman who publishes everything was asked to keep one hour quiet. She has said since that shutting the feed took four seconds plus the rest of the evening to stop regretting.
Jia came in with three lines written on the back of a salvage docket.
