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Reads the no contact column on Brooks's board at about one o'clock on 19 March 2349 and goes to find her, because his wife and son are in the residential service row behind North Flats and no contact is not the same as anything. Brooks gives him the whole truth: nobody has crossed to North Flats since Friday evening, the last vehicle to try the yard road took twenty-six minutes to cover eight hundred metres, and she has no team to send and no authority to make one. He listens to all of it and thanks her, which Brooks says afterwards was the worst part.
Reads the no contact column on Brooks's board at about one o'clock on 19 March 2349 and goes to find her, because his wife and son are in the residential service row behind North Flats and no contact is not the same as anything. Brooks gives him the whole truth: nobody has crossed to North Flats since Friday evening, the last vehicle to try the yard road took twenty-six minutes to cover eight hundred metres, and she has no team to send and no authority to make one. He listens to all of it and thanks her, which Brooks says afterwards was the worst part. Chapter 10 SEVEN WARM METRES is his chapter. His movement exposes a genuine warm pocket: +9 humans, −1 responder. He survives; Brooks refuses to scapegoat him and also refuses to pretend the decision was free.