The drawing lay behind a shallow box of folded cloth.
Tessa saw the corner when the recording scout changed his light angle. She asked him not to pull the box forward. The shelf’s place in the room had just been recorded, and the paper appeared partly beneath it. They needed the relationship visible before a useful object made everyone forget how it had been found.
The scout photographed the wider view, then the folded edge. With the joint keeper watching, Tessa lifted only the loose cloth obstructing the paper. The small sheet showed figures drawn in uneven lines and a repeated mark near the lower edge.
“It looks like the other one,” he said.
“Get the reference,” Tessa answered.
Lale brought the authorized image of the drawing recovered with the second coastal body. The original remained outside under its own custody. On the screen, the familiar repeated mark appeared beside two figures and the uncertain larger shape. On the shelter sheet, the mark was clearer at one end and smudged at the other.
They compared what could be seen. Similar strokes. A comparable curve. Paper with a coarse surface, though thickness and discoloration differed under the current light. None established the same artist or the same source of paper. A child might have drawn either. An adult could have made the simple figures. Someone else could have copied a shared mark.
