The Fixer
ActiveThe Council voted to create her title the following morning. It passed. There was no discussion.
She arrived not through election, invitation, or any process the bylaws recognise, but through a demonstration that The Founder described as "the most impressive thing I have seen in a very long time."
The Record
The Club's official records contain no surname for The Fixer. No photograph. No date of birth, no professional history, no jurisdiction of residence. Her file in The Secretary's catalogue consists of a single index card bearing only her title and the notation, in The Founder's hand: "Do not document further."
She does not attend Council meetings. She is, however, present — members have occasionally become aware of her in a room only after she has already been there for some time. This is not considered unusual. It is considered characteristic.
She does not speak during official proceedings. When she communicates, it is through The Supreme Leader, by means that The Supreme Leader does not describe in the minutes, and in terms that require no elaboration by those who receive them.
Her work has included the suppression of materials that would have altered the outcome of at least two elections, the management of an individual whose continued presence in a particular city had become what she termed "a structural problem," and the resolution of an incident at a Club gathering that could, without her intervention, have occupied the international press for the better part of a year. Members refer to these episodes by number. The numbers are not small. The numbering began before she was formally associated with the Club, which is the detail that members who have noticed it do not discuss.
When she is satisfied with an outcome, she says nothing. When she is not, she also says nothing. Members have learned to distinguish between the two silences. It has taken most of them longer than they would prefer to admit.
She has been asked, on one occasion, what she wants. She considered the question for a moment and said: "For things to be arranged correctly." She did not elaborate. No one asked her to.
The Last Word
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