According to the files in Neith’s investigation folder, there are five positions listed in the senior echelons of Tidal Flow. The names have been lost—a data retrieval error, apparently, at the System’s Edinburgh storage facility. It is the more embarrassing because it also means that the surviving members of the department have not yet been paid for last month. The Inspector might have believed it last week—would have, with the faith of someone who truly knows a thing cannot but be true, by definition, or the sky must fall—but not, for one instant, today.