IThe Fourthday RunChapter I · SolaraThey run this road every Fourthday. Kyra talks for the first two miles and Val answers about half of it.Untitled · v2IThe Fourthday RunChapter I · SolaraThey run this road every Fourthday. Kyra talks for the first two miles and Val answers about half of it.UntitledIThe Fourthday RunChapter I · SolaraThey run this road every Fourthday. Kyra talks for the first two miles and Val answers about half of it.UntitledIIThe Turn at the Second HeadlandChapter I · SolaraThey stop, as they always do, and stand facing the water for about a minute without saying anything, and then run back.UntitledIXTwo Lit WindowsChapter I · SolaraTwo buildings on one campus, a few miles from two flats on a hillside, with a yard burning six miles inland.Untitled1·01Thats the Half with the Shoes in itChapter I · SolaraFifty years of a working arrangement in four lines. She talks for the first two miles. Then she goes quiet for a quarter mile, which in Kyra means she is building something.2·01A Thing That Does Not Exist YetChapter I · SolaraEstablish the condition of the whole book: a schedule rather than an argument, and nothing wrong with any of it.
2·02Do You Want Them or Do You Want to Be SensibleChapter II · The Third TrackerA crate carried four hundred miles by somebody who knew exactly who she was carrying it to.2·03Four Seconds Eleven FramesChapter II · The Third TrackerA woman of sixty-seven spending her evenings on a smudge. Render the frames as what they are: eleven small plates with almost nothing on them.
1·02Eleven StridesChapter III · A Real PlaceNo contact. What Val is doing, which Kyra cannot see and would not have been shown, is going very carefully through the sentence, finding it has no bottom, and standing on the fact of a woman running beside her instead.IIIIt's a PlaceChapter III · A Real PlaceKyra tells her on the road, because it is where they were when she could not hold it any longer. Val runs eleven strides before she answers.UntitledIIIIt's a PlaceChapter III · A Real PlaceKyra tells her on the road, because it is where they were when she could not hold it any longer. Val runs eleven strides before she answers.Untitled1·03Give it to ThemChapter III · A Real PlaceThree words, and the entire difference between this woman at seventy and the woman who filed a separation at twenty-two.2·04The Frame Moved Beneath ThemChapter III · A Real PlaceThe argument that distinguishes the instrument made this from the instrument saw this . Render it as a comparison, not a revelation.
1·04The Chair by the WindowChapter V · Two DaughtersIt was a good evening. Val would think about that afterward more than she thought about the rest of it.1·05I Dont Get the RoomChapter V · Two DaughtersGenie opened her mouth and closed it again, which Val had seen happen perhaps four times in twenty-nine years. Both mothers are at that table and neither says anything.
2·06Five Hundred and Ninety EightChapter VI · Genie Says It in a HallA panel of four at the front, second from the left looking at the room the way she looks at everything.2·07That S Not TrueChapter VI · Genie Says It in a HallBecause it was wrong, and somebody had said it in a hall, and there were five hundred and ninety-eight people in the room who were going to make a decision using it. The continuity man is not annoyed, which is the worst part.
1·06With the Door ShutChapter VII · The AskNo contact. A written-up test of her own daughter, sent to her because the program had decided at some level she could not see that this was the decent thing.2·08Four Minutes and Nothing in itChapter VII · The AskA man from another faculty holding the key so that nobody in the room can give anything away.
2·10Eleven Rooms and Forty Thousand ItemsChapter IX · The ArchiveThe visible reason, which she lets people have. The actual reason is that everything ever measured on that campus is down there and she can ask it anything without filling in a form that asks her why.2·11Sets of Nine SealedChapter IX · The ArchiveA clean protocol with a sealed key, a blinded set, and a control condition the program's own people had not thought to include — built alone, in a basement, out of obsolete equipment.
1·07Fists Inside Her SleevesChapter X · SecondhandNo contact, and she is alone. The shape she knows: the person you have given everything to is doing something enormous four rooms away, and you will hear about it from somebody else, in a corridor.2·12She S a Better Archivist Than the ArchivistChapter X · SecondhandHe is delighted, and he has no idea what he has just done.2·13She Did Not Look GuiltyChapter X · SecondhandThe worst version of a mother and daughter in one room: neither of them is wrong.
1·08Ask Me About the ChannelChapter XI · Ask MeVal is aware of the shape of what she is doing while she does it, and would want that on the record, and nobody ever asks. Then: Ask me about the channel, Kalenne. Don't ask me about her.
1·09Two EnterChapter XIII · Two EnterNo contact. She had been in the room where the material behind that number was gathered, with an old woman's hands on the arms of a chair, and the old woman had not been quoting anything. The page is never legible.
1·10Eleven Minutes of Lying StillChapter XIV · PairsTwo women of sixty-nine who looked twenty-two, with a technician of twenty-six filing their figures behind a door , saying nothing else about it, because there was nothing to say, because it was a measurement.IVThe Corridor BenchChapter XIV · PairsTheir resonance is being measured behind a door by a technician of twenty-six. The figure comes back middling, and nobody thinks about it, including them.Untitled1·10Eleven Minutes of Lying StillChapter XIV · PairsTwo women of sixty-nine who looked twenty-two, with a technician of twenty-six filing their figures behind a door , saying nothing else about it, because there was nothing to say, because it was a measurement.1·10Eleven Minutes of Lying StillChapter XIV · PairsTwo women of sixty-nine who looked twenty-two, with a technician of twenty-six filing their figures behind a door , saying nothing else about it, because there was nothing to say, because it was a measurement.
2·17This One You AskChapter XV · The YardYou do not build a lattice hull. A long pale mass in a tank on eleven points, with the cell boundaries showing through the skin like the grain in something that used to be alive.2·18One Question and Then She WaitedChapter XV · The YardA habit of asking one question and then waiting, which most people cannot bear, so they fill it, which is the point. The folder stays shut.
2·19Say That Again SlowlyChapter XVI · AdenHe follows her three steps ahead of where she is, and when she gets to a place he has not anticipated he stops and says wait and actually waits.2·20He Signed the Line Above HisChapter XVI · AdenShe passed it on. An attendance sheet, eleven names, nine of them in the room, filed by a man who has never read one — and the thing she does not think about again for six years.
1·13The Tenth PageChapter XVII · The PeakNo contact. On the tenth page she says, in the plainest words she has, that there are now two things nobody can account for — and that she does not claim they are connected.1·14Kyra Comes out LaughingChapter XVII · The PeakNo contact. The best objection anybody will ever make to her work, and she has no answer to it, and is going on anyway.Untitled1·14They Re Right and I M RightChapter XVII · The PeakNo contact. The best objection anybody will ever make to her work, and she has no answer to it, and is going on anyway.2·21Eleven Cycles on a PageChapter XVII · The PeakA shape too regular to be an accident of instruments and far too small to interest anybody who has not spent four years on the inside of a smudge.2·22The Only Thing They Have in CommonChapter XVII · The PeakFour of them are kind, and the chair means it when he calls it a beautiful piece of measurement.
1·11The Light in the Cabin ChangedChapter XVIII · Thirty SecondsThe single most important image in the file. No motion, no spectacle, no stars. A small hull interior gone quiet, the light a different color than it should be, and two women sitting four feet apart doing nothing at all.1·12Say it ProperlyChapter XVIII · Thirty SecondsThe omission is the image. One woman has already moved on. The other has just decided, permanently, not to say something.VIAfterward, With the Cuff Still OnChapter XVIII · Thirty SecondsKyra says it was less interesting than the coach. Val says it was the most ordinary thing that has ever happened to her, and means every word, and does not mention the other thing.UntitledVFour SecondsChapter XVIII · Thirty SecondsVal's first fold. It is four seconds, it feels like nothing, and the only thing she will never put on a form is that she was aware of the woman beside her the way you are aware of the floor.Untitled2·23Was That itChapter XVIII · Thirty SecondsRender the thirty seconds, not the result. Forty people in a ground station and a clock, and nothing happening at all.
2·14I Don T Get to Guess with YouChapter XIX · What Doesn't WorkThe only time anybody ever saw Ovask raise his voice, and the argument took nine days.2·14I Don T Get to Guess with YouChapter XIX · What Doesn't WorkThe only time anybody ever saw Ovask raise his voice, and the argument took nine days.2·24He Did Not SignChapter XIX · What Doesn't WorkThe fold was delayed eleven days and it cost what it cost, and they took the support out and found a seated fitting.
1·15You Ve Got That DownChapter XX · The SorrenSixty years of being asked the same question about a dead man and a ship now named for him.VIIWalking Down to the CoachesChapter XX · The SorrenThe hull is finished and named and lit behind them, and they walk away from it talking about a man four thousand years dead, and neither of them thinks about the ship again that evening.Untitled2·25There You AreChapter XX · The SorrenThe single most impressive image in the book, and nobody in it makes a noise. There, said Ivar Rask, beside her, to nobody. There you are.2·26As in the DaelsChapter XX · The SorrenShe has four versions of the answer and uses whichever the room deserves. Sixty years of the same question.
1·16Nothing Goes Into a Fold That Has Not Already Gone HomeChapter XXI · Four Minutes, Then HoursNo contact. The tedious part of that year, which turned out to matter more than the flights, which is the kind of thing that is only ever obvious afterward.1·17The Chair at the BackChapter XXI · Four Minutes, Then HoursRender him as a young man who is ill — thin, gray, a stick across his knees — and never as an old one. The two women are in the room and the image is about what they are watching.2·27It Wasn T the FoldChapter XXI · Four Minutes, Then HoursA man who has been given a piece of news he cannot place. Do you want to sit down? — No. I want to go again with somebody in the other seat.2·28Are They BackChapter XXI · Four Minutes, Then HoursRender him as a young man who is ill. A chair kept for one person at the back of a ground station, and a young man standing near with a hand available and never offering it.
1·18Ordinary Light AgainChapter XXII · ApprovedFifty years, and they both thought about the paperwork.Untitled1·18NineteenChapter XXII · ApprovedFifty years, and they both thought about the paperwork.1·19Ilen CriedChapter XXII · ApprovedForty-five years of knowing somebody, compressed into a disagreement about one gesture.1·20The Family ShipChapter XXII · ApprovedThe closing image of the book, and of the last ordinary year. Six miles inland the yard lights are on over a ship with a fault long since fixed in her ninth bay.Untitled1·20To the Sorren to the CrewChapter XXII · ApprovedThe closing image of the book, and of the last ordinary year. Six miles inland the yard lights are on over a ship with a fault long since fixed in her ninth bay.VIIIThe Flat Above the Street of Small ShopsChapter XXII · ApprovedThe mission is approved and crewed. They drink to the ship and the crew on an ordinary evening with nothing at all wrong.Untitled2·29Nine MinutesChapter XXII · ApprovedNineteen. She writes the figure in her own notes because it is the first time it has been a figure rather than an argument.2·30A Fault Long Since Fixed in Her Ninth BayChapter XXII · ApprovedThe last image of the book, and of the last ordinary year. A finished hull in a lit yard at night with nothing wrong with it.
