Lin Mei clicked the side stem of her stopwatch, resetting the split-second needle to zero.
“Sweep hand reset,” Lin Mei announced, dropping to both knees on the wet deck grating.
Cold spray misted across her tortoiseshell lenses, but she didn’t take them off.
She slid her Pickett metal slide rule from her breast pocket and lined the transparent cursor over the log scale.
“Stethoscope in position on the lower flange,” Dr. Victor Corvo reported, pressing the chrome bell against the vibrating casing.
“Acoustic baseline established,” Corvo added.
“Filter out the generator rumble, Doctor,” Julian suggested.
“Already calibrated for high-frequency attenuation,” Corvo assured him.
