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She walked.
’The report,’ it said. ’Current entry.’
"Tell me," she said.
’Subject went to the river district this morning without the working list,’ it said. ’She talked to a person who has been carrying things alone for eleven months. She said the true thing. She did not frame it as operational. She did not build a list item around it.’ A pause. ’She just went.’
Another pause.
’The report notes that she left the working list on the table,’ it said. ’Deliberately. And that she has been reaching into her inner pocket twice since she left and each time has put her hand back without taking anything out, because what she needed this morning wasn’t in there.’
She thought about the twice she had reached for the list.
Both times outside the laundry. The first time before she went in, the second time on the bench before Tessa arrived.
Both times she had put her hand back.
’The report considers this significant,’ the system said.
"Everything is significant to the report," she said.
’Yes,’ it said. ’But some things are more significant than others.’