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“Right.” Jeremy rushed over to the supplies duffle that he must have brought with him. He rushed back with small green flags on half-meter wires and handed them each a fistful.
Miranda slipped hers into a thigh pocket on her pants. The familiar weight was the start of her next sphere of the investigation.
Depending on the scale of the debris field and the type of terrain, it would sometimes take two or three circuits to define the outermost edge of wreckage. This one looked so compact, she felt as if she could draw a circle around it all by herself without fear of missing anything.
Many investigators moved directly to the key elements: the wreckage, the black boxes, the cockpit that was the origin of so many problems. But they often missed the small details, only backtracking if they
