STATE
A wet station platform at night under an iron canopy, one lamp lit over a bench, tracks in the foreground
11:52P·88%
PLATFORM 4 · DAY 41 · 11:52 PM

Cleared.

The ticket held. You walked past the inspector with your own name on it, and nobody on the platform looked twice.

THE MARK IS STILL ON THE CONCRETE. SOMEONE ELSE WILL READ IT.
The same platform, darker, the lamp nearly out and a train's red tail lights on the tracks
11:52P·88%
PLATFORM 4 · DAY 41 · 11:52 PM

Burned.

The doors closed with you on the wrong side of them. Somebody scuffed the mark before you got to it.

THE NEXT TRAIN LEAVES WHEN YOUR NUMBERS SAY SO.