Mira recognized the second pulse while the hospital clerk was still explaining why the file had arrived late.
The shape was not identical to the poorer city’s reading. It had a shallow first movement, a pause and a sharper return. The old sequence in Mira’s mind supplied a rhythm before the displayed values had finished loading.
Then she saw the district name.
“That isn’t where I expected it,” she said.
The clerk stopped apologizing.
Juno asked Mira to point to the feature she recognized. Mira traced the rise without touching the screen. Juno enlarged the underlying interval and checked whether the display had rescaled the axes. It had. The rise looked steeper than it was, but the brief pause and reversal remained in the raw values.
“The resemblance is here,” Mira said. “The location is wrong. And I don’t know whether the intervals match closely enough.”
“Wrong against your expectation,” Eli said.
