The blanket reached the table before the first list.
A woman put it down, pointed to the shivering person behind her and asked whether counting could wait until somebody found a dry place to sit.
Lyra moved the list.
Maren’s crew check could continue while people received food, water and space. The first purpose was not to make an impressive total. It was to find anyone still below, misplaced in a service room or assumed to have boarded a vessel that had left.
She had that announcement repeated through people who spoke the languages used in the lower section.
Ada’s warming arrangement supplied portions in ordinary batches. Volunteers carried them without asking one cook to stay awake forever. Felix compared the sheet formats at his small bench, then went to rest when the numbers began sliding together in his head.
Barnaby took a defined interval beside the record clerk and made his handover plain before tending his joint.
The apparent missing woman came from two entries.
