A stock line is a column on an organiser's sheet listing what goes into a route before the gate opens. Route nine's was amended at the fifty-first hour by a clerk whose name does not appear on the amendment or on anything filed since.
Luna had the original off Regina's copied notes plus the amended version off the supplementary assignment. Four entries changed, every one of them upward, two of them above the ceiling printed on the indemnity all four had already signed.
[Route nine: supplementary assignment.]
[Published ceiling: Grade Five. Amended stock: two Grade Six.]
Nobody at the barrier raised a voice about it, since a voice is not what the document was built to draw out. A route that kills a competitor inside its published grade is an accident, while a route amended upward eleven minutes after a refusal is an invoice.
