The second observer moved the stool before the trial began.
From the place used for the first test, she could see the vessel’s scale but not the volunteer’s final action without turning. She wanted both in view, and she wanted Pela’s hand clear of the reference adjustment after the baseline was set. Pela checked the new angle and accepted it.
Juno wrote the change down.
Different volunteer. Different independent observer. Fresh baseline. An observation position that reduced one uncertainty in the timing. The second test did not become identical to the first merely because they hoped for the same result.
The volunteer was another visiting hunter whose ordinary completed-work claim was pending. He had been carrying equipment between the facility refuge and the upper receiving point. He looked at the first trial’s nonidentifying summary, read the revised briefing, and asked whether he could stop if his interface showed anything beyond the ordinary confirmation.
“Yes,” Juno said. “Stop before acceptance. The trial ends uncompleted.”
“And I don’t owe another attempt?”
“No.”
