Forty thousand people at ninety-seven per cent of capacity, a finished residential ring standing empty over a clause, and relay outages that have been getting longer for years without anyone calling them a warning. Then a group that came to close roads, not to kill anybody, wrecks the anchor plant at the throat in four minutes, and the inhabited pocket on the far side comes loose. One evacuation corridor, one serviceable chain, a finite number of hours. Arithmetic any resident can do on a wall.
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- The arithmetic on the wall. Did the numbers do the work I wanted them to?
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