About
The sympathetic applicant at the Warden's counter in chapter 05. She exists so the reader learns the two access regimes as ordinary office procedure, in peacetime, on a case that costs nothing: - Regime A (restricted civil holding). A determination was made on the boy at the registrar's counter three years earlier (he came ashore with nothing on paper; his mother did not come ashore at all). Material went in as evidence — the office's plates, the interval off his wrist, two statements, and a page of a hall book in his mother's hand. The man who answered for the boy then applied for restriction and has since died.
The sympathetic applicant at the Warden's counter in chapter 05. She exists so the reader learns the two access regimes as ordinary office procedure, in peacetime, on a case that costs nothing: Regime A (restricted civil holding). A determination was made on the boy at the registrar's counter three years earlier (he came ashore with nothing on paper; his mother did not come ashore at all). Material went in as evidence — the office's plates, the interval off his wrist, two statements, and a page of a hall book in his mother's hand. The man who answered for the boy then applied for restriction and has since died. Halden is bound: the application created a right in the subject, and only the subject can apply to vary it — in his own name, at seventeen, and not before. A later guardian cannot open what an earlier guardian shut. - Regime B (operational route archive).
Family
One boy, fourteen, in her care; unnamed on the page. His mother is dead — lost off a hull working a line out past the far side. Deliberately left unnamed and off-page; the case closes in chapter 05 and is never reopened.
How they speak
Ordinary working speech, practical, no deference and no performance. Argues from the boy, not from herself. Goes red along the jaw and does nothing else about it. Not a petitioner and not a symbol.