The third day began with the same quality as the last days, which wasn't a big change from the other days but made the light look a little clearer and the air move a little more noticeably.
The group completed the morning's assessment work quickly and effectively, demonstrating that they had found their operational rhythm and were working at a pace that this rhythm allowed. Aisella finished cataloging her botanical collection by comparing the specimens she had pressed with the ones she had prepared for transport.
She held one of them up to the light—a broad-leafed specimen with a vein structure that didn't match anything in the existing regional profiles—and tilted it slightly, the way she did when she was deciding whether something deserved a second classification entry or whether the first one had been correct.
"This one's going to cause problems," she said, not to anyone in particular.
