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Aboard for the whole 331-day displacement. Kept the daily issue book after Master Cray died on ship-day 88, when Efe was on the bridge — so his hand is part of the sealed record Sesk cites. Discharged outbound at the pay-off muster: Efe read his line, said something to him too quietly for the translator to bother with, and he grinned, exhausted, all teeth. Denn pushed his own broken-in dock gloves into Corin's hands and said the cold on the inner run ruined bare hands, which may even have been true. Corin took the gloves, shouldered his bag, and went up the inner-run hauler's ramp without looking back. The hauler lifted at first light.