Juno covered the patent name with a blank sheet.
“If I look at that first,” she said, “I’ll start comparing against what I want to find.”
Sera placed the model observation beside her drawing. They had the public specification, photographs of the visible component, the reset number and a signal trace from the permitted sensor. They did not have the internal design. The technician had refused permission to open the housing during the current exercise schedule.
Eli remained across the table. He had already angered Juno by naming a theft before she was ready to establish it. He could either spend the afternoon defending the intention behind that mistake or help her examine what she had actually found.
“What can we compare without opening it?” he asked.
“The exposed connections. The published timing range. The way it handles the repeated signal.”
She drew the paired arrangement again, this time larger. Kellan found a ruler in the borrowed equipment kit and handed it over. Juno used it to separate two lines that looked identical at a glance.
“The first version I built duplicated a whole reading when the input repeated,” she said. “It filled the record with the same event. That mattered if you wanted to see a new disturbance against a constant source.”
