For twenty years, I've been the only hand that lowers the screen in the front chamber. Lately I find myself standing there long after it's down.

• NoshibaI count how long you stand there too.
  MirzanDon't count it. The record-keeping is mine to do.
• HairanSteward, that's just your legs aching, that's all it is. Forty years digging in the dirt and my own knees
  MirzanLet's just leave it as my legs, then.