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.
9 lamp readings taken at the marked stations were entered this cycle, compared with 5 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.
