Jian placed the pendulums where neither could see the other’s adjustment marks.
The workshop keeper watched him turn the second board.
“They don’t have eyes.”
“The people adjusting them do.”
She smiled and brought the second record sheet.
The morning light reached the repaired reserve vessel first. Yesterday’s successful withdrawal had left a line of colored water on the glass. Tamsin had marked the measured depletion beside it before cleaning the interior.
Jian checked the new trial coupler. Its closing handle acted directly on a mechanical stop. The reference formation could fail without taking the operator’s means of closing with it.
He moved the handle through its full range, returned it, and asked the local operator to do the same.
