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Samar approved Harish Oberoi’s file before the chime finished sounding. Sixty-two, a moustache going white on one side first, confidence 97.1. Years later he asks the Archive what happened to the man.

For twenty-six years Dev Sharma knew a longer recording of his night at Gate Four existed. He never asked to see it. On a Tuesday, in plain clothes, he sits down in a low chair in the Archive and asks for all four minutes.

Aisha has signed more than nine hundred files. She fought about sixty. Four she still thinks were wrong. Then Samar, two years out, comes to her office to ask how she saved one tailor’s licence.

Sector 4-West has lost 2.1 points of confidence across 6,214 determinations, and no one can say why. The first person to feel it is Pushpa Devi, whose tailoring licence has renewed cleanly for eleven years.