Mara wrote the request at the bench terminal in the middle of the afternoon, with the third fork’s governor on the viewer’s screen beside her.
She wrote it slowly. It was going to the Board, through the clerk, and from the Board to everyone: the guild, the Compact’s engineering office, the lamp crews, Caldris’s inquiry panel. It would be read in public. She wanted every line to say exactly what she meant and nothing else.
Request, from the well crew, for the manifold rebuild.
One. The complete load model for the well. Both versions, if there are two. Every lamp, every shell, the reservoir. Every figure the archive and the Compact hold.
Two. A list of all surviving metal that could be used in the rebuild. Every bar, plate and sheet in every store on every world, with its source.
Three. A work schedule for the rebuild, with rest built into it.
She read it over. She changed could be used to might be used. Then she changed it back.
Tavin read it over her shoulder.
