Mione takes the contract upstairs and works through all eleven paragraphs with a magnifier, because the eleventh contradicts three of the others.

MioneParagraph four says the survivor is the party left in the house. Paragraph eleven says the survivor is the party left unmarried. Those are not the same person.

CorvinaThey were the same person in 1990 when it was written. Your father wrote it for a world where there was one of each and no orphans.

Mione puts the magnifier down. It is an ambiguity, and in this building an ambiguity is not a mistake, it is a door left open on purpose.