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Vale

Major Character

About

On the floor of block nine near the door at ten past two on 22 March 2349, moving drums. Came out from under the edge of the falling frame on his own feet, inside the first minute, having taken it across the chest on the way down. Went out on the four o'clock crawler run with the man who had broken a forearm coming off the tank platform. Kim had them both at the old works by six. Vale walked and talked and argued for six hours and died at eight that evening.

On the floor of block nine near the door at ten past two on 22 March 2349, moving drums. Came out from under the edge of the falling frame on his own feet, inside the first minute, having taken it across the chest on the way down. Went out on the four o'clock crawler run with the man who had broken a forearm coming off the tank platform. Kim had them both at the old works by six. Vale walked and talked and argued for six hours and died at eight that evening. Vale and the broken forearm are two people. An earlier draft welded them into one sentence. The forearm was splinted, went onto the corridor list and was arguing about it by seven; he survives. Vale is the reason twenty-four came off the ring is the wrong sentence. He left the Ring alive, arrived alive, and was not alive at the end of the day, and Rhee wrote all three figures on the load list one under the other.