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Of the standalone short Forwarding Address.
Book 1–Book 5 are published; the story coins nothing. It teaches existing vocabulary through what each word costs him: seam/junction → throat · route → road — the formal Earth words he brought and the working words nobody here uses them beside. Learned on the passage out, from a schedule read as a table of assets, and from a steward who will not slow down for him. - lease / occupation / volume / claim / standing — learned at counters, at the price of a night on a gallery bench. - first-called / build-lease — learned by losing eight tonnes of freight space to an instrument signed eight years before he arrived. - short-count — not learned; done, and then named for him by Nadia. - settled, non-standard · gone long — overheard, twice each, never explained. He asks where settled, non-standard comes from and gets the route board, and nobody knows when, and nobody has wondered.