About
Kajola is the chapter's un-emergency. The readings are worse than last year and Kajola's only reactions are to the file's tidiness and the marker crate. Do not promote this character into someone who suspects anything.
Across the stories
The Far Roads
Recommendation taken and recorded: keep kajola as A RECURRING SHIPBOARD HAND — Kestrel's ranging hand — rather than forcing kajola into the core seven. The reason, stated in the spine: Kajola OVERLAPS Veski and Ravn. The core's ranging-and-record functions are already held; a third hand doing the same work is furniture. Who Holds the Standard's locked register: flat, dry, procedural, faintly aggrieved about paperwork rather than about the sky. A working hand's concerns — the crate, the second bell, whether stores will write back. kajola is the un-emergency, and that does not change. do not promote this character into someone who suspects anything. Gender is not established in prose and is deliberately left open – The Last Cache, chapter 6 uses the name throughout and no pronoun. Do not assign one.
How they speak
Flat, dry, procedural, faintly aggrieved about paperwork rather than about the sky. Complains that the file "looks like we can't count." The register is a working hand's, not a professional's: Kajola's concerns are the crate, the second bell, and whether stores will write back.