Vasa opened the equal-witness inspection on the thirty-fourth day and opened it by letter.
The annex the auditors' clerk had countersigned ran until the matter closed. Whatever the Exchange could examine in this country, the confederacy could examine on the same terms.
She did not ask permission and she did not announce anything to anybody. What she filed was a notice of inspection listing nine assets and one question about each.
The question was the same every time, which was who owned the link.
The audit had produced a provenance chain for every asset it classified.
Each chain traced a national thing back to a continental origin across four or five steps. The school core, the city anchors, the Hunger Road, the medical corridor, the relay.
The training standard, the capital spine share, and the Citadel's future dungeon production made eight. The ninth was the confederation's own access to the continental gates.
