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Sould's working counterpart in the culture hall. Reads her numbers back to her in front of her — a standing arrangement since the spring, when he caught a fouled sample line she was ready to write off a whole vessel on. In he argues the opposing engineering case: bank the best mother-line (V5) in cold hold and run the weakest alone — seventy-four measures a day instead of a hundred and seventy-eight — because he does not believe the Compact will feed the sector. Sould logs his alternative proposal under her own signature at his request ("let me be wrong in writing").