And in the September of 2025, after it had all come out, she lost her place on that ship.
Not because of me. Because Corey and Jana worked out between them, inside about a fortnight, who the four or five people were who could have known, and Jana said something to somebody.
And a woman of twenty-six who did the right thing in April is now working somewhere at Vayle Harbour doing something else.
And she sent me one message about it, in the October, and it was not angry.
She said: Don’t worry, I’d do it again.
And I have not replied to that message.
Fifteen months.
Because there is a reply, and it has to start with the fact that I had eleven weeks in which I could have handled it quietly and did not, and that the longer it ran the more people there were in it.
And I have not been able to type that out to a woman who lost her job over it.
