Kana Ardan came onto the corridor line at the ninth hour of the evening with a Directorate spear shaft still in her side. She had been kept off every Blackforge site by signed instruction for the whole of the arc, so nobody had a procedure for her arriving.
The shaft went in low on the left, four fingers under the rib line, missing the artery by a margin nobody has priced since. She walked the last ninety metres of the corridor herself, which the watch entered as an arrival rather than as a casualty.
Four men had come for the case instead of for her, which is the only reason the entry wound sits where it does. A party sent to recover a document puts its weapon through the carrier's side rather than the carrier's chest.
She left two of them on the corridor stones, then did not stop to establish what the other two did afterward. Wren went out past her at the yard wall, held the corridor mouth eleven minutes, then came back without being called for.
