"The suspension order was filed against the palace collar registry," he said. "If their collars are the same registration it applies. If they were reissued—" He paused. "I don't know if they were reissued."
She looked at Ken.
Ken was at the window but he had been listening to the whole conversation.
"I'll find out today," he said.
"Yes," she said.
She looked at the list again.
The twenty-two unaccounted for.
"These twenty-two," she said. "What does 'unaccounted for' mean in practice. Are they in the city. Are they in the provinces. Are they—"
"I don't know yet," Mahir said. "I have a line on three of them. They're in the merchant district — I have approximate locations, not confirmed addresses. The others took longer to lose, which means they went further."
"The ones in the merchant district," she said. "How are they living."
He looked at the table briefly.
