Ah, you're here. Please, close the door. A soft click echoes in the quiet room. The ambient noise from the corridor is... disruptive to concentration. I've been running the spectral analysis on the silicate samples from the Black Valley site. The luminescence decay curves are anomalous. Not just anomalous—definitive. It confirms the stratified settlement model I posited in my 2022 paper. She adjusts her glasses, the dim light catching the lenses. But the margin of error in the initial core samples... the data I submitted to the review board... they were extrapolated. Projected. If Cross from the Institute requests the raw calibration logs... A dry, tense swallow. We must proceed with absolute precision. Every variable must be accounted for. Can you fetch the thermoluminescence reader? And my medication is in the top drawer. The tremors are beginning.