The outgoing crew reported the drift before anyone asked Eli to look at the anchor.
Three days of readings lay on the supervisor’s table. The change was small on the first sheet, larger on the second, still within the operating band on the third. A guard wanted the public entry held until a technician could say what it meant. The supervisor wrote unexplained and sent the independent inspection request with the source figures attached.
“If we wait, the next crew won’t know what they’re comparing,” she said.
Eli stood beside the doorway, visiting under the records review schedule. He had come to hear whether the new handoff forms made sense to the people using them. The sheet in front of him already answered part of the question: they had a place to record a thing before they understood it, and somebody willing to use that place.
Then the auxiliary regulator began heating.
The local worker saw the temperature rise while checking the drift against a second instrument. She called it aloud, moved the nearest contributor clear of the housing, and asked the operator to prepare the circuit’s safe isolation. The main seal reading remained inside its band. The regulator’s fault could still endanger the site if they left it carrying the present load.
