He filed for A-zone access the next morning.
Same desk. Same administrator. She looked at the new classification on his file—Sovereign-Class Carrier, Multi-Path Road-Integration—for exactly as long as she had looked at every other classification he had come through her desk with. She looked at the standing order the board had issued. She stamped the permit.
No review period. No secondary approval. The standing order covered it.
He had A-zone access. For the first time.
He filed zone fifteen first. Zone fifteen needed work before zone sixteen was anything other than an observation run.
The contact events ran three mornings in sequence.
