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Stub (named walk-on, speaks). Created The Quiet Mathematics.
Chair of the federal energy-office review that hears Ifeoma Eze's case (Abuja, ~2050). Courteous, tired, decent — has told Eze twice this year he's "on her side" and meant it both times. - The sympathetic-institutional face: wants to be persuaded, signs what he can defend, can't move what's moved above him. After the hearing he follows Eze out into the heat to tell her, off the record, that control of the northern facility has been restructured "above this room" (Geneva / the framework) — and that they don't lock a cabinet tighter to leave it alone; "you lock the cabinet you're about to open." Voice: measured, plain, kind in the unofficial register; names the hard thing once and lets it…