Voss did not begin at the household’s gauge.
She asked Tamsin to identify the safe comparison points, then selected three: the isolated receiver input, the local support outlet, and a downstream point where an unfinished load would reveal itself in the neighboring return.
Valen watched her mark them on the actual route.
“Those points are accessible within the current state,” Tamsin said. “No opening of the active path to make a different test.”
Voss agreed and called her technical officer.
At the downstream point, the commander asked the local keeper to identify the receiving branch without Tamsin answering for him.
The keeper followed the actual route and showed where an unfinished load from the compulsory apparatus would have appeared if the substitute were merely moving the problem out of sight.
Voss compared the position with the isolation record. Her officer marked it on his own working copy.
