Chief Ranger Arashobal (Krenyi, Quiet-Built)

The general operations log came up to the Chief's desk at the turn of the station's day, every section's, with the initials on it.

Dock Seven's carried two. The cadet's, under each line, as a cadet's did. And under the time line, a second: the new Section Lead's, at an hour the log recorded and no roster had set, which meant she had gone down to the dock on her first evening on the station with no watch to take and no reason on any sheet.

Arashobal read the page for what had been struck, and nothing had. She read it for what had been added, and nothing had. The time line carried the station's time, from the left-hand instrument, marked, as a cadet on that dock was told to mark it on the first watch now. The second initial sat under it and claimed nothing further.

She had known, from the file, that this officer did not write the sentence after the sentence. She had not known that the officer would go and stand where the sentence was and not write it there either. The Quiet-Built kept no fact whose use was not yet shown, and this one had shown its use in the first evening, so she kept it.