Chapter 10: The Thermal Data and What It Proved

The anomaly showed up on a Thursday.

Sera had been running the new sensor array through its calibration sequence for the better part of the morning, half her attention on the screen and half on the wind that had been building since before dawn, pressing against the station's eastern face with the patient insistence of something that had been traveling a long time to get here. The calibration data came back clean. The thermal readings did not.

She looked at them for a long time before she did anything else.