Chapter 299: Cole's Survey
Harren Cole had been in Kael's Seat for eleven days.
He had not wasted a single one of them.
His working table was in the corner of the room he had taken above the eastern trade hall — the best room in the building, chosen because the morning light was good and because the table had enough surface to spread a full survey layout without folding anything. He did not like folding documents. Folded documents produced missed details at the crease.
The layout now covering most of the table: Zone 20 output data on the left. The carrier function mandate records in the center. The eastern survey summary — what he had been able to get from the Guild's public records office — along the right edge. And in the top corner, his own analysis notes. Seventeen pages, filling a medium notebook. A second notebook started yesterday.
He reorganized every morning if anything had changed.
This morning, something had changed.
