Felix found the service passage because a woman eating an apple told him to stop standing on the complaint.
The paper was pinned to a low garden board. He had put his hand directly over its heading while asking whether anyone knew another route to the lower gate.
“Three weeks,” the woman said. “We filed that three weeks ago.”
He moved his hand.
The complaint concerned a door reopened for household deliveries, a broken retaining cord and water running across the steps beyond it. Beneath it, in another hand, someone had marked the first stretch cleared.
“I was about to call that a deduction,” Felix said.
“Call it overdue work.”
She bit her apple and pointed him toward the tenant watch.
