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Ilves

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Owns the count, the score and the magazine state, and volunteers the shape of what she does not know before anybody asks for it: "Ready magazines hold five engagements. That's five if they go tidy. There has never been a tidy one and I'm not going to start telling you there might be." She is the chapter's honest wrong turn. She brings Farzan a reshaped drill programme built on what is "being said" about Bishop — the colony that went black, a paper in Ottawa, five hulls moved — and cannot answer either question Farzan puts to her (the range of the anchor work, the geometry it comes in on).

Owns the count, the score and the magazine state, and volunteers the shape of what she does not know before anybody asks for it: "Ready magazines hold five engagements. That's five if they go tidy. There has never been a tidy one and I'm not going to start telling you there might be." She also names the thing Farzan got wrong, which is the better half of her: "You could have had it on Monday. It was on Palisade on Monday." Has her directors manned an hour before she is asked. Gets the far-side fix a few seconds after the ship does.