Marcus Makes His Choice

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Morrison calls at two in the afternoon. I am on the platform. Zane sees Rosa appear at the entrance with her phone extended and her clipboard held against her chest like armour and he says from the catch bar: go. I come down. I take the phone. Morrison says: Marcus Vane gave a formal statement this morning. I say: what did he say. Morrison says: everything he knew. He says it with the tired competent certainty of someone who has been in rooms with people telling the truth for twenty years and knows what it sounds like. He says: he knew an accident was coming. He knew Celeste had arranged something with the rigging consultant. He did not know the specific technical details. He says: he chose not to know. I say: he chose not to know. Morrison says: deliberately. He says it carefully

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