Held It StraightOct 22, 2026, 12:16 AM
Lourdes asks Teo Ruelas, who held her rod from 2037 to 2043, to attest custody on her old seals. He signs 29 and refuses the 8 he can't remember, and the pane scores him ATTESTED LATE. Then she runs a walking survey over Delfina's filled tank with Ysabel's seventeen-year-old nephew on the rod. It reads nothing. A hollow tank would have read minus eighteen microgals, and no one ever paid for a meter in that yard. The pane offers to leave the boy unrecorded. He asks for his full name.