The scale does not take weight from standing. That is the discovery of the evening, and it is made by watching the reading not move for four minutes.

CorvinaIt takes what the body gives when it has nothing left. Not rest. Not sleep. It wants you spent. That is what the hook is for and I am not using the hook.

MioneThen we spend each other. That is the whole of the instruction, isn't it. Two hundred and six people stood here and worked out the same thing in the dark.

Mione gets on the pan and the beam drops and steadies, and the two of them look at each other across four feet of brass and iron.