The liquidation notice had to be delivered in person, which was the only mistake the Exchange made all season.
Continental procedure requires a collateral notice to reach the holder through a recognized Meridian. A letter through an embassy route establishes nothing, since an embassy is not a gate.
The auditors had spent eleven weeks proving the confederacy held no recognized gate anywhere. Their own procedure now required them to open one to deliver a piece of paper.
Vasa found that requirement on the eighty-first day and read it four times before speaking.
It sat in the ninth step of the procedure the four councils had asked for. Nobody at the Exchange had hidden it, since nobody had ever needed to hide it.
An office that has opened delivery apertures for nineteen years does not think about them. She had spent eleven months winning on exactly that kind of forgotten sentence.
The authorization would be theirs rather than his, and every line of it was temporary.
