The records room was a large meandering irregular space on the second floor. Records only needed to be kept for twelve years before they were destroyed, but the city itself had grown over time, and so also had the record room, with walls being knocked down and adjacent spaces being repurposed.

Crocken added his reports to the piles on the "In" desk. Junior Executioners were moving around the room doing the tedious work of filing things away and updating the cross-indexes.

He was about to leav...