It's a little while before Alice gets them to Atticus. She's a quick learner, but the technology is still unfamiliar to her and each picture is sent, one at a time. And there are quite a lot.

"There," she says, tucking her yimo back into the recesses of her apron. "That's the lot of them. Except the ones that came out all black because the flash was off."

She gave him an accusatory look.

"Why are you so interested anyway? I'd think a new arrival would be more interested in the bigger picture of things."