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Out at the far bore field, seventy-seven kilometres west-north-west, when the sun went out. Started for Hart on Friday night and made thirty-three kilometres in two days, in two-hour legs with long stops, because the traction pack that drives the tracks is the pack that runs the cab heater. Every kilometre came out of the heat. Transmission drive failed Sunday afternoon at forty-four kilometres out. Her discipline is the chapter's counterweight to the flight argument. Transmission window on the hour, four minutes, because on the hour is what a person remembers.
Out at the far bore field, seventy-seven kilometres west-north-west, when the sun went out. Started for Hart on Friday night and made thirty-three kilometres in two days, in two-hour legs with long stops, because the traction pack that drives the tracks is the pack that runs the cab heater. Every kilometre came out of the heat. Transmission drive failed Sunday afternoon at forty-four kilometres out. Her discipline is the chapter's counterweight to the flight argument. Transmission window on the hour, four minutes, because on the hour is what a person remembers. Cab heat at a level everybody hated and never moved, except twice a day for Broch, and she said so on the net rather than pretend she had not. Gave the pack as a percentage, got no reaction, and gave it again in hours, because a percentage means nothing to somebody who does not know the machine.