About
Behind the desk in a first-floor office near the docks, with a queue on the landing. Her ordinary work is arrivals: find out what a person needs and put them somewhere — a hundred and six people since Monday, and, she says, every one of them was in the building when she did it. What she does with the second parcel is not her ordinary work and she does it anyway: reads all forty-one pages, pencil in hand, while her own queue thins and builds outside the door. She stops twice — at the guardianship page (Mae Sutter) and at the page with June on it, which she reads twice and then leaves the room over for four minutes.
Behind the desk in a first-floor office near the docks, with a queue on the landing. Her ordinary work is arrivals: find out what a person needs and put them somewhere — a hundred and six people since Monday, and, she says, every one of them was in the building when she did it. What she does with the second parcel is not her ordinary work and she does it anyway: reads all forty-one pages, pencil in hand, while her own queue thins and builds outside the door. She stops twice — at the guardianship page (Mae Sutter) and at the page with June on it, which she reads twice and then leaves the room over for four minutes. Then she declines all five items, one at a time, with the reason for each. The guardianship needs an address and a jurisdiction that do not exist. The estates are courts, a different one each, and none will take a filing off her.