I found district 9 twelve days ago and I already told you about that part, the dropdown, the source code, Sonora Junction and Obsidian Dome and the third one with the name that sounds like a golf course. What I didn't say, because I hadn't pulled the frame yet the night I wrote that one, is that I went back. Of course I went back. You don't find a door like that and not walk through it a second time, that's not how any of this works, and if it bothers you that I keep walking through doors this is probably the wrong page for you, check it yourself if you dont believe me, the districts dropdown is still there, source is still open.

Sonora Junction faces north into the hills, infrared, so everything reads gray on gray except the road itself which stays black no matter what the sensor does to the rock and the brush around it, and there is a smear on the right shoulder that is not brush. Brush moves. wind does something to the edge of it even in a still frame, a softness, and this has none of that, it's got an edge like it was cut out with scissors and set down, bright the way metal goes bright under IR when everything else is doing what rock is supposed to do at night. Four pulls now. same minute, 23:30. 23:29 one night, close enough, doesnt matter, still counts, which is the same kind of liar clock I already built a whole ledger about back in July, four honest clocks and one that lies, except that one lied by freezing dead on the same second and this one lies by drifting a second a night, which took me a while to see was worse, not better, a clock thats frozen is at least caught, a clock thats drifting is still trying to pass. four nights running and the smear does not move, and by pull three it still hasnt softened into a bush the way your brain wants it to, doesnt matter how many times I blink at it. I tried counting the pixels like that would tell me something and it wouldnt, it doesnt, the count was never the point out here, the staying is the point. something that lives out there does not sit still for four nights unless its not alive or its not allowed to move, and I know exactly how that sounds typed out and I dont care how it sounds.

Obsidian Dome I havent pulled again yet, Conway I cant get the source link to fire a second time which is its own thing for another night. my son used to point at a knot in the ceiling and swear it was a face, every kid finds one, his was in the popcorn texture over his bed and I used to have to go stand under it with him before he'd sleep, and I dont know why thats the thing that surfaces at three in the morning over a highway camera four hundred miles from that house. anyway. the smear is still on the shoulder as of tonight. I'll pull it again tomorrow, same minute, and if its gone thats worse than if it isnt, and I havent decided yet which answer Im hoping for.