CORVID FINANCIAL  ///  RECOVERY DIVISION
INTERNAL FILE — HANDLING AGENT ONLY
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ACCOUNT IN DEFAULT — RECOVERY OPEN
Acct: CF/EXPED/MAGELLAN        Status: SKIPPED

DEBTOR ....... MAGELLAN, freelance surveyor. M, ~43,
               lean, restless, dark hair greying at
               the temple, rad-weathered. Talks
               easily and trusts easily. Squints.
               Hands never still.
PRINCIPAL .... Expedition financing. Full underwrite,
               against a claim the debtor was "sure"
               was out past the charted lanes. Corvid
               likes sure. Corvid was wrong to.
LOSS EVENT ... The venture was boarded and stripped
               mid-run. Hold gone, claim gone, ship
               most gone. The debtor survived it and
               the note did not die with the payday.
               He could not cover a tenth. He ran.

RECOVERY POSTURE (handling agent's note)
  I am not in a hurry and neither is the balance.
  Interest keeps working while he sleeps. He is not
  a violent man and not a runner by temperament, he
  is a curious one, and a curious man cannot leave a
  mystery alone. He will surface where there is
  something to find. Watch the anomalies, not the
  exits. He comes to me eventually. They always do.

  I want the man able to work, not damaged. A broke
  surveyor who can still survey is a repayment plan.
  A dead one is a write-down. Handle accordingly.

CONTACT
  Route through the Division, my reference below.
  Do not approach the debtor. He is mine to close.
                                     — M. SOLANO
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Corvid Financial. The note remembers what you owe.