Round four permits new faction registrations up to the morning of the first bout, which is a courtesy to provincial entrants who travel late. Eleven compacts filed on that morning, the last of them at the ninth hour, under the name Harrow Reach.
Luna reads the second page of any document first, since the second page of a licence sheet names the bond underwriter. She had the Harrow Reach filing inside forty minutes, because Blackforge pays a standings clerk four credits a page for sight of the registration book.
Nothing on the sheet was irregular in any particular a registrar is trained to look for. Four names, a face card apiece, a licence bond paid in full at the counter rather than in instalments.
Vell recognised the man at the competitors' barrier at the eleventh hour, from about thirty metres, by the counting.
