The generosity was the problem.
Not the generosity itself — rulers were generous when they wanted something, and wanting something was not a crime. The problem was the specific shape of it. The treasury queue position had moved from thirty-seven to two within six hours of her conversation with the administrative director's contact. The bank instrument integration had been formally expedited with a seal that required authorization from above the treasury office's standard operating level.
Someone above the treasury office had noticed her instrument.
She had not told anyone above the treasury office about it.
She sat with this at the fourth bell, the household asleep around her, the working list in her hands.
'Why,' she wrote in the margin.
Underlined it.
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She started digging the next morning.
