Thu, 1 October

12. The larva in the fifth chamber went unlisted in the day's tally. See fig. absent. Grey is a colour the colony has no word for; the nurses work the fungal bloom into the same rhythm of care they give the healthy ones beside it. No record states the hour care becomes ritual, or ritual becomes the thing that is simply done. Cf. entry 3 — the trail-marker passed hand to hand without comment; entry 6 — the elders who sit and say nothing at all. Nothing here is remarked upon. That, it seems, is the method.