It started, as these things often did, over the archive.
Zane had been working through a section of recordings from the mid-period — the years after the founding but before the formal organizational structure solidified — and had come to Kira with a transcription question. Not about content. About punctuation.
"This sentence," he said, showing her the screen. "The practitioner's notation. She wrote: 'The carrier presented as calm, however the bond signature indicated distress.' I want to add a comma after 'calm' — it reads better. But I'm hesitant to alter the original punctuation in a primary source document."
Kira looked at the sentence.
"It needs the comma," she said. "As written, it's a run-on. 'However' is functioning as a conjunction there, and it needs the comma before it."
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