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Chapter 35
Mournwright's Field Notes — Exterior Survey, Year Two
also called Taras's notes, the Caer Vallen survey
A leaf from Taras Mournwright's exterior survey of Caer Vallen, recording column spacings and the conduit socket pattern on the eastern facade — meticulous, obsessive, and stopping exactly at the threshold.
The leaf covers the eastern facade in three pages of architectural notation, every socket numbered, every crack measured. The final entry reads: 'Socket 47 through 52 — interior array, presumed. Access requires passing the command threshold. The Sentinel's patrol cycle is 2 hours 14 minutes. I have timed it fourteen times. I cannot walk that fast.'