Off-Manifest

Hassan was dead three days before anyone bothered to tell Amsa. Bad news takes its time reaching a Belt mechanic. Vee surfaced it anyway.

Amsa calibrated his ship three weeks ago. The manifest is twelve hundred kilos light — and the missing weight was Hassan. In five days the engineer who signed the ship off lands on the blame list. That engineer is Amsa. On the Mars side, an inspector is already pulling the Belt’s cargo records on a body that hasn’t even been officially filed.