The backstory that explains Fragile's accelerated aging — the acid rain exposure, the skin that looks decades older than it should. She was used. Higgs found the lever that the world had given him over her and applied it, and the result is Middle Knot City's destruction and Fragile's permanent mark and the specific shape of hatred she has been carrying since. A nuclear bomb delivered as cargo is the ultimate perversion of the porter's mission — the network turned into a weapon, the delivery system used to destroy rather than connect.

The Mule attack in this session is almost incidental beside that backstory weight. The Mules are the cargo addicts, the people who needed the delivery to mean something and could not stop when the delivery became the point rather than what it served. They attack because they want the cargo. Fragile was tricked because someone wanted the delivery made. The perversion runs in both directions.