Tarr Meki fed the glass inspection fiber beneath the first white rib.
The camera crossed red muscle, a clay foundation socket, and three irrigation tubes tied with plant cord. It reached another rib forty-two meters from the first without leaving living tissue.
Tarr marked the distance on his slate.
"One joint does not give you the whole north terrace," Dera Koss said from Upper Gate.
"It gives me forty-two meters of one body," Kestrel answered.
She drew the surveyed line and stopped at both camera ends.
The raised crop wall had trapped Tarr's forty-one visible people on a service shelf beneath the middle gate. They moved in groups chosen by the shelf keeper. Twelve crossed the first ladder to higher stone. Nine followed after the bolts held under their separate weight.
Twenty people remained visible with Tarr.
