~ start a1f2793e-c09a-4764-9f10-624228b37d46 if is_quest_accepted Narrator: *The corridor isn't going anywhere and neither is the light. What you're carrying has to go west (location 6,13).* [#end] else Narrator: *You stand in the corridor a while longer with the bundle under your arm.* *The generator holds its note. The strip light holds its dim. Nothing else down here is going to explain itself to you.* Narrator: *You can't read a word of it. Wren can.* *Her camp is a long way west of this rock (location 6,13).* Narrator: [#quest_info=c9011325-b384-433b-802c-b3f566d9c8ae] if is_quest_accepted: Narrator: [quest: accepted] [#end] *You leave the engine running. It seems wrong to shut it off after somebody kept it ready that long.* else: Narrator: [quest: declined] [#end] *The bundle goes into your pack regardless. You're not leaving it down there.* => END ~ start bedbea7a-10ae-48f9-8748-c62e18410763 if is_quest_accepted if are_quest_requirements_met Wren: *She's on her feet before you're past the camp line, and she's looking at what's under your arm, not at you.* That's from inside. That's from inside, isn't it. Wren: *She gets the crate onto the table and starts lifting things out of it. The notebooks come first. She reads the way people read when they aren't really reading yet - covers, dates, back pages.* [#complete_quest] Eleven. Sequential. Ten years of primary record and it's all one hand. *Her voice is doing something it doesn't usually do.* Wren: *The photograph is in with the charts. She takes it by the corner and holds it flat, the way you hold something you don't want to mark.* Second from the left. That's my grandfather. *Then she stops talking for a while.* Wren: *When she starts again, it's quieter.* That's him old. That's him the way I remember him - the face he had when I was small enough to sit on his lap. Wren: *Her voice goes careful.* He's missing his left eye. *She turns the photograph to the lamp. Then away from it. Then back.* Wren: I knew him until I was nine. I have his hands memorised. He had both eyes in every year I can remember, and he had both eyes when they buried him, I was th- *She doesn't finish it.* - It could be a bad print Wren: *She doesn't look up.* It isn't the print. There's scar tissue. You can follow the line of it into the eyebrow. - Someone who looked like him Wren: *A sound that starts out as a laugh and doesn't finish.* I know that face better than I know yours. Wren: *She sets the photograph face down on the table and puts her hand flat on top of it, and leaves it there.* Leave the rest with me. *A pause that runs slightly too long.* Please. Wren: *Her hand hasn't moved.* [#end] Come back in a few days. I'll have something for you by then. *She doesn't sound like she believes it.* else Wren: *She looks up, and keeps looking past you at the road.* [#end] You went down there. What was in it? *A pause.* Bring me all of it. Notes, tape, anything with writing on it. I don't care what it weighs. else Wren: *She's at her table with the survey map still weighted at the corners, working the same three points she worked last week.* [#end] Any word from the east range? *She's asking about the coordinates. Not about you.* => END