Year 491. The gap was zero on a staffing allocation for the western census office.
Year 492. Zero on a bridge-repair requisition for the Halvern canal district. Zero on a quarterly naval maintenance budget. Zero on a blessing-access renewal for the northern agricultural cooperatives. Fourteen seconds, eleven seconds, nine seconds, twenty-two seconds. Different forms. Different complexities. Same result. Orvessa Coldmantle signed each document at the exact moment Zephyr's predictive model completed its calculation, and the exactness had stopped being remarkable and started being the texture of every administrative day, and the texture was unbearable in a way he still could not categorise.
