The apparatus worked hardest when the contestants were doing nothing.
Felix checked that three times before saying it aloud.
The final rehearsal schedule lay beside Valen’s preserved test record. Beyond it, Orren had arranged the attendance references obtained through the archive exchange. Barnaby kept the older succession extract separate from both.
At first the numbers disagreed because Felix had compared an interval total with a reading taken at one moment.
He corrected that.
Then a copied time belonged to the end of an assignment rather than its beginning.
Orren pointed it out. Felix corrected that too.
One apparent extension disappeared when Orren found the release on the following sheet. The worker had completed the assigned interval, and the later entry concerned equipment held in readiness rather than the person remaining at the contact.
