Authority can fail locally
The clinic and the service controlling the hand disagree. Attendance and Measures dispute their jurisdictions over a rescue. A warning is refused; a false entry saying the street was warned returns after Sava strikes it out. Two current notices order opposite things. These failures do not make the city harmless: people still lose pay, time, access or a chance to be heard.
Some contradictions are the action
The Secretary is physically present while the minutes use her recorded absence to disqualify her. An errata copy remains uncorrected beside a signed request for corrections. Rewriting either scene into consistency would remove what happens in it. The fictional errata never instructs this guide to change the actual book credit.
Open quantities and identities
The Wing's collective pronoun does not identify who opens the gate. The doorway and bed remain different accounts. A woman's living situation is not exhausted by the pronoun in the first-hour instructions. An echo, name proposal or matching object does not settle all those coordinates.
After the last figure
The final visitor offers water and later signs. The story has not supplied a new exit law, and the guide does not supply one. The separate Duration of stay field remains in the book. Its empty space is not missing data for this companion to fill.