Nyx put a finger on the place where the schedule stopped answering questions.
"Here."
I moved the cup away from the papers. One copy described a relay reset during the maintenance interval. The other said the return channel remained available throughout that same interval.
Both carried an approval mark.
I read the two sentences again, this time with my finger under the interval so I couldn't quietly make them refer to different parts of the schedule.
The times overlapped. The wording didn't leave much room to pretend otherwise.
I turned the newer sheet toward the light, checked the mark and then looked at the older one. Neither looked like a stray draft somebody had left in the packet by mistake.
Nyx waited while I worked through that. She had placed the pages beside each other before calling me over. I had still needed to see the contradiction for myself, as if it might become less inconvenient when I read it a third time.
"Different dates?" I asked.
