The timecode log came through on Friday at four minutes past six in the evening, attached to an email from Nadia with no text in the body at all, which is a thing people do when they want you to read the attachment before they have to have an opinion about it.
Seventeen fixed positions. Sixteen of them powered up at 15:40 on Tuesday, in a block, the way they had powered up every day for a fortnight.
Position fourteen powered up at 22:58.
Three hours and eighteen minutes after the others. Twelve minutes before Simon and I walked into the walk-in. Card reader signed out at 22:51 and back in at 23:47 to D. Yule, AP (story).
I read it four times in the office at Ilé with a delivery note stuck to my elbow and the Friday prep going on the other side of the wall, and then…
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