Rennsa checked the compensation receipt before she folded it.
Her adviser had checked it already. So had the court clerk. She read the figures herself because the lost weeks had belonged to her, and because the price of treatment looked different when it stopped being a debt she might have to carry.
“Paid?” Iven asked.
“Cleared.”
She put the receipt in her own case.
On day seven hundred and eight, the civil account had drawn the assessed losses from the private funds attached during Rovan’s proceedings. The recovery-machine damage, the return-house repairs and the individual treatment and lost-wage claims had separate entries. Money belonging to the working association’s public contracts remained in its operating accounts. None of the workers had to lend the court a month’s wages so that the director could be said to have paid.
Rennsa’s adviser gave her the closed claim copy.
“You don’t have to come back next week.”
