Another hand's writing had been laid over mine on the roster. Where something's erased, the paper thins, and that leaves behind who erased it, and when.

• Anatoly ZverinIsn't the paper thin because the Captain revises it so often?
  Rodion VershininWhere I make a correction myself, the handwriting doesn't waver.
• LiliyaThey say there was a sound all night in the barracks, a blade pressing on paper. I nearly died of fright.