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Doing the tallying at the block one door on 22 March, because somebody had to be and she was standing there. At nine at night she checked Aaron Pike's fifty-one-line load list against what was actually on the last crawler, and found line eleven — the cold cabinet of living soil inocula, the only copy on the planet, unprintable — with no tick and no cabinet. She asked three people. Two thought it had gone on the second run; the third said Rhee had it. Rhee was three kilometres away with the seed crate on his knees.
Doing the tallying at the block one door on 22 March, because somebody had to be and she was standing there. At nine at night she checked Aaron Pike's fifty-one-line load list against what was actually on the last crawler, and found line eleven — the cold cabinet of living soil inocula, the only copy on the planet, unprintable — with no tick and no cabinet. She asked three people. Two thought it had gone on the second run; the third said Rhee had it. Rhee was three kilometres away with the seed crate on his knees. Block three had been shut down and its heat taken off it at four that afternoon. She went across two hundred and forty metres of open ground rather than five hundred round the inside of the ring, because it was quicker and because everybody had been crossing the open ground all day. Nobody saw her go.