The committee’s conditions fit on one page because they had spent most of the morning deciding what the page could not claim.
Mira could help map the damaged reservoir approaches. The settlement engineer would accompany her. A replacement scout chosen by the community would learn the route and the reasoning behind it. Her useful knowledge would not make her the only person able to interpret her own marks.
She could not act on the collapse key alone. Its observed custody, rigid insulated carrier, disconnection, warning sleeve, and two-person relief conditions continued. Nothing in the mapping assignment authorized a mechanism change. If she withheld relevant information, the committee could stop the work and revise the arrangement.
The representative read the terms aloud. Mira listened with her hands around an untouched cup.
“And this applies only to the communities represented in this agreement,” the representative finished. “You don’t carry it into another settlement as our permission for them.”
“I understand.”
“We’ll ask you again where you think a conclusion is yours and where it’s an observation.”
“All right.”
