Season 14 · Episode 2

The same season from above the line. The party knocks every shift and is answered every shift, and in its fourth year on the ground the survey goes back through its own log and finds what it has been calling the one voice on the roof that was not an instrument's. Then the other half of the same finding: under every one of those entries is the answer from the line, kept for two years by an instrument the one who gave it does not know is there. The party argues what keeping means and chooses, for the length of a knock, to know less than its instrument could tell it, and to write that down. Then the one act, from above: a hand on the rock that does not move, an interval that ends with nobody coming back, a voice at the line nobody on the roof can read a word of, and a log entry that says only what was done, how long the channel was off, and who heard it.

• S14E02C01 Sound, RisingFliade — the upper junction, the squeeze and the line, and the station on the roofThe survey side of the fourth year, from inside. The party knocks every shift and is answered every shift, with the handheld on the chest strap and its sound channel off, and at the turn of the year Egede writes the channel summaries and Nakagawa signs. The unit's sound channel has three classes. Two of them the party reread two years ago and found a people in. The third is sound, rising: a hundred and sixty-four entries, in no hand, under the unit's own name for a thing it was built to notice, and every one of them is the one voice on the roof that was not an instrument's. Egede says write the name on it. Ferrant says the unit filed at its grade. Nakagawa, who struck young and struck fault, cannot strike this, because there is nothing wrong with it, and asks the one it is of, which nobody has done in two years. The answer is Nakagawa's own line, given back.
• S14E02C02 Not GivenFliade — the upper junction, the squeeze and the line, and the station on the roofAravena has slept on it seven times and gives the answer at the junction, beside the unit: leave the class, put no name on, because it was not said to the survey. Then the rest of it, which nobody at the table had asked. Under every one of Aravena's entries is the answer, filed as a rock, and the unit at the top of the passage has kept every one for two years, and the one who gave them does not know the unit exists. The party argues it at the station: Egede, that a survey which arranges to have no recording is not a survey; Ferrant, that an instrument switched off is entitled to nothing and the gap is a person's to own. Nakagawa sleeps on it and in the morning gives the order that finishes the one given two years ago: for the length of the knock, the unit at the junction does not hear the line. The party keeps what it sees and what it is given. Nobody records what was said, and from this shift nobody on the roof could.
• S14E02C03 Heard ByFliade — the upper junction, the squeeze and the line, and the station on the roofThe one act, from above. Aravena knocks, as on every shift, and the one on the line puts a hand on the answering rock and does not move it. The interval ends. The order says come back. Aravena, on the silt, with the light low on a hand that has not moved, works out what the interval was always for and stays, and the one on the line says something, to Aravena, for a long time, in a voice nobody of the survey has heard before, and nobody can read a word of it, and the stone comes at the end. At the junction three people stand beside an instrument with no channel open and hear the shape of it come up through the crack, and do not go down. The log that shift is the shortest the survey has written about the longest thing that has happened to it: what was done, how long the channel was off, and who heard it.