At the East Seam, four galleries below the old cart rail, Uldra Ker keeps the trial period file beside a hairline change in the slate above the second timber brace. The two details are easy to miss in a summary: one is a line in a ledger, the other is the condition that decides whether the line is useful.
Uldra Ker is the shift foreman on the east face. On this deep winter visit, the work begins with the soundings book and the crew’s pre-entry inspection cards; only after the entry is checked can the crew say what the rule asks of the people below.
62 soundings recorded before entry were entered this cycle, compared with 61 in the prior file. The figure is one part of a longer handoff. Dara Vek checked the soundings book and the crew’s pre-entry inspection cards against the field notes. The method is to start at the shift handoff, where an official total can lose its context; it confirms the entries, but not every interpretation attached to them.
The foreman calls the readings a useful warning; the survey office says the marks need a second instrument before they can justify a closure. The current record does not settle that disagreement. Residents closest to the work describe the difference as a route, a wait or a shift that cannot be moved on a slate. Their accounts have been attached to the docket rather than folded into the total.
The docket has returned for review with the exceptions and unresolved objections attached. The entry belongs to the trial period file at the East Seam, four galleries below the old cart rail. A second surveyor will repeat the readings from the opposite wall. The next visit will show whether the revision travels beyond the office that wrote it.
