Juno asked the technician to put her proposed cut back on the drawing. The woman held her pencil above the place and looked toward the other workers before touching the paper.
“I know it was wrong.”
“We know there’s a return we hadn’t mapped. Show us what made this point look separate.”
The technician marked the two instrument positions. At the lower investigative setting, the captive traces became more distinct beyond the main housing. The visible conductor had no join on its exposed side. The diagram ended the old monitoring branch before that region. Given those conditions, the proposed point had seemed to avoid forcing a separation through the overlap.
Juno had the observer write those assumptions beneath the mark. The new physical line contradicted the last one. It did not make the earlier measurements imaginary or the technician’s reasoning a concealed wish to take a reckless shortcut.
“We change the diagram,” Juno said. “Keep the path by which we learned it was incomplete.”
The technician’s shoulders lowered a little. She remained beside the table instead of drifting toward the back of the room. When the dungeon engineer laid the construction rubbing over the present drawing, the woman pointed out the angle she had felt beneath the casing. It helped align a mark that the old plate had placed at a misleading distance.
