Day 126. Friday. June 5. 2 × 3² × 7. The day the cube bre...

Interior of a small stone cottage on a FRIDAY in early June — the day of THE SCATTERING. The creature at Day 126 = 2 × 3² × 7, the first mark of row twenty-six standing alone beneath twenty-five completed rows. The dense perfect grid BROKEN by one brave solitary mark. The cube of five dispersed into the ordinary composite. Scatter. Continue.