Chapter 26: Crane Appears at the Wrong Moment

The schematic had sixteen notations in the bottom margin by the time Elias folded it again. He had made fourteen of them with his left hand. The other two — a corrected patrol interval and a question mark beside junction four — he had made with his right, which was unusual for him, and which he noticed only when he folded the page back along its crease and saw the slight difference in ink weight.

He put it back inside the maintenance log, between pages eleven and twelve, where it looked like nothing.

That was three days ago.