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Record 1,849.
The custodian is moving vertically for the first time.
We have prepared nothing. There is nothing to prepare.
We have only waited.
Waiting is what we do best.
They went down at first light, before the heat came.
Orren had marked the fault column with three orange flags and a ring of survey wire, the same unhurried precision she brought to everything — as if marking a hole in the earth sixty-one meters deep was the same as marking a soil sample site, which perhaps for her it was. Fourteen years had made her methodical about things that would have made other people ceremonial.
