His description stayed within what he had observed.

It did not claim to know what Michael had done before the fall.

He said that mattered because he was not there before he found me.

He could tell them where he found me and when.

He could not tell them what happened outside his sight.

He laid the duplicate beside the notebook.

The paper listed the dispatch time, the search assignment, and the time he reached me.

The official record had been preserved and the duplicate carried the same entries.