Nyx could have given him Sella's name.
It would have saved most of the morning. Cedric would ask the dispatch clerk his own questions, and Sella would discover that knowing how to sort returned instructions had made her interesting to a noble heir.
The interest might last a day. The consequences would remain after he found something else to investigate. Nyx folded the reference list and put it inside her class book.
She needed to confirm whether the canceled operation appeared in a new local return. That was the request she had accepted. It did not require handing him the person who could answer it.
Sella worked at a small forwarding counter used by several offices. She was neither a Silvaine agent nor a trusted member of any important household. She entered references, checked charges, and passed sealed packets to the correct collections.
