The True Shape of the Land — Twelve Thousand Witnesses，第 11 页
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Panel 1. Grey dawn light comes through a shutter. Brisk holds the large drawn sheet up in both hands, pack still on her back, eyes enormous. Merel watches her from the side, arms folded, notebook tucked under one arm. BRISK: This is the fish street. And this is the turn by the tannery. Panel 2. Tight close-up. Brisk's thin finger lands on one point of the drawn street plan, the paper filling most of the panel. Her face is just above it, lit from below by reflected light, awed. Merel leans in from the right. BRISK: The well is here. That is how far the well is. MEREL: Yes.
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Two panels in grey dawn light. Above, Brisk holds the large drawn sheet up in both hands, eyes wide, understanding it at once, while Merel watches from the side with her arms folded. Below, a close-up of Brisk's finger landing on one point of the drawn street plan, her face just above it, awed.
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Nine days inside Ninefold and the city has not moved once. Merel starts measuring it, at first only to keep from going mad, and finds something worse than drifting numbers: numbers that agree. She improvises instruments, walks the same street until it confesses, and follows the exactness out to the last houses, where it stops dead and the land beyond refuses to hold a shape. Adai watches the work with an unease she cannot name, and Brisk, her apprentice, asks the question no Orranic has ever had reason to ask. By lamplight Merel draws one district, street by street: the first map in the history of the world. It answers why the city holds still. Then Brisk picks it up, carries it out into the morning, and asks whether she can show it to people.