Today, voting is making her fractionally impatient, so the System is reciprocally terse in its briefings, while at the same time emphasising gratitude for her time during a busy period. She will not be asked to participate in judgements likely to require lengthy debate or research. Instead, she is assigned to an immigration board, and rapidly rejects the entry of two shifty young men with chequered histories hailing from a country generally—and not unfairly—associated with organised crime. They are proposing a business venture with a cargo enterprise in Docklands, and Neith marks the firm for attention, too. A third applicant, superficially very much like the other two, she eventually endorses. She suspects he wants to get the hell out of his home city and make a new life, so she recommends several apprenticeship programmes, and receives a startled and somewhat joyous thank-you from his legal counsel.