The first response remained on the screen while Juno asked the observer to read the event log again.
The researcher had spoken a documented name and its associated final request. The passive recorder and the independent instrument had registered a change after the input. A ventilation cycle had begun earlier. A lamp had been adjusted before the spoken sequence. No one had touched the core or altered an instrument control during the marked interval.
That was a useful account. It was still one account of one trial.
Juno made the first raw copy before anyone resumed. The neutral custodian verified its receipt at both participating laboratories. Under the narrower harbor order, neither Aegis nor Juno’s team could become the only owner of a result by being first to read it.
The Aegis specialist stood beside the outer instrument with his notebook shut. He had asked that the operator’s position remain fixed. Juno agreed. They marked the stool and the recorder table so a later movement could be distinguished from a change in the core.
“Does your reader generate anything the independent unit could be detecting?” he asked.
“Within its ordinary operation, possibly,” Juno said. “The first comparison reduces a single-reader fault. It doesn’t exclude every shared interference.”
