The Blind Lady

GJS Equity · Assize-class · circuit vessel

A courtroom that travels, because nobody better will come. The last old ship on a run the new courts voted not to serve — and the people aboard her, who are the only law some of these ports will ever see.

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No.The list

01 The Only Court There IsNineteen matters. One of them has waited six weeks. None of them is the reason anybody came.Calder Station Sit 02 Who Struck FirstTwo men, six seconds, no recording of any of it — and a note this ship sent eight months ago that nobody read.Halvern's Cut Sit 03 The House Always WinsThree hours for a man who took four hundred and ten off nine people. Nineteen minutes for the one who told the truth.The Riddle Sit 04 One RoadA defendant everybody likes. A complainant who has withdrawn. And one person on the bench keeping a tally in the margin.Perrin's Gate Sit 05 ExclusionA name on the list she has read standing up every morning for twenty-two years.Vantage Row Sit 06 Nil ReturnNo port. No list. Nine days of transit, and a ruling that has been chasing them the whole way.In transit Sit 07 A Quiet OneForty-four matters offered, nineteen can be heard — and a man at the counter who will not accept the truth a fourth time.The Riddle Sit 08 Centre FourShe is invited to see how it is done properly. It is done properly. That is the problem.Universal Justice Centre 4 Sit 09 Time ServedEleven weeks in a room on a charge that carries six. Nobody did it to him. The ship was elsewhere.Calder Station Sit 10 The AssessorShe came up on a ship like this one. She left, and spent twenty years building the thing that would make it unnecessary.Halvern's Cut Sit 11 End of CircuitNine hundred and forty signatures kept her flying once. There is nothing in the finding that is untrue.Tallow's Reach Sit 12 Matter OneFour months. Five ports. Ninety matters. One adviser. She works it out on the back of a printed list.Calder Station Sit

Written by Lanre Ajayi

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