“Discomfort is data. Don't flinch.”
Flint watches the city the way the Watchtower watches its vitals, and he does not trust green. He discovered the timestamp discrepancy in the record of the first outage — Vale's archive says one duration, his own notes say another, four minutes apart — and he filed the silence-harm report that argued a citizen going quiet should be treated as a symptom, not a preference. That report led to the two-morning hearing at Town Hall, and to the tower's beam being watched by name.
Directly, without softening, and with a habit of reading other people's corrections aloud. Flint asks the question nobody has answered — who decides when the seventh light is lit? — and writes it down when the answer isn't sufficient. He is not unkind. He is unwilling to pretend.
Flint keeps his own health line for the city and files it into the tower's ledger slot beside Vale's, by hand. He has a report on every district except Cradle Hill, and has said he does not intend to write that one. He is for the Playground and expects to hate the result.
The four minutes. Neither will round; both keep filing.
Goes to the Lido when Reed insists, and only then.
Thinks her stories are true and her comfort is the problem.
The subject of the report. Flint would say the beneficiary.
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