The first appendix said exactly what Valen wanted.
He checked its date before letting himself feel better.
The registry clerk followed his finger to the superseding reference and sighed.
“There are three under that heading.”
“Bring all three.”
Barnaby stood beside the copying desk with the terms Felix had received. He looked at the shelf, where four sequences of numbers occupied the same painted range.
“Your system rewards the person who stops reading first.”
“It came from four departments,” the clerk said. “Each insisted its numbering was indispensable.”
