A decision on the lantern fault should be judged by what happens at the Lantern Fault below the east water gallery. The docket is at step 8 of the current review. Its latest entry reads: A public vote has approved a narrow change while leaving the larger question open. A rule that looks complete in the chamber can still leave the people who use it carrying an unmeasured cost.
33 lamp readings taken at the marked stations were entered this cycle, compared with 37 in the prior file. That comparison matters because the public summary counts entries. The open question is whether a new side passage can be surveyed without drawing the east crew into an unmeasured seam.
The draft suggests an open connection, but the old map records a collapse in the same direction. The current record does not settle that disagreement. The objection deserves a direct answer, but it is not a reason to make the rule permanent before the affected residents can check the method.
Dara Vek checked the fault map, lamp checks and a sealed bag of recovered stone chips 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 practical evidence is a warm draft that changes direction just beyond the fourth marker; any new measure should record that condition beside the total.
The chamber should approve a limited trial with a published end date, a way to record exceptions and a named reviewer. The crew will hold the face while a remote lamp is lowered beyond the fourth marker. That is the narrowest decision that can be defended from the evidence now available.
