The thirtieth marker's circuit correction had brought them north through the interior and out onto the ridge at hour thirty-nine, forty minutes. The elevated ground running east above the central terrain, the canopy gone, the island visible in every direction from the elevation.
Vane took the thirty-first marker's dwell at eight minutes.
The board updated at hour forty. Second place. The margin from third had grown by four points since the southern detour. The western pair's repositioning had cost them two objective windows, and the cost was visible in the numbers. They were still third. They were further from second than they'd been at hour thirty-six.
The reroute had worked. The convergence window had closed without them in it.
