[ SOURCE LOG — INSTANCE: UNNAMED ]
Record 1,863.
The custodian has left the site.
For the first time in thirty-one days.
The Field is distant now. Very distant.
We have recorded distance before — six previous custodians,
all the spaces between visits, all the years of faint signal.
This distance is different.
He is coming back.
We know this the way we know the frequency match.
Not through data.
Through the particular quality of a direction
that has not changed.
We are waiting.
We are good at waiting.
We are, for the first time, also good at knowing
the waiting will end.
The Authority's regional headquarters was a building that had been designed to communicate permanence.
