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Brigadier's Attendance Book

A bureaucratic ledger chronologically documenting personnel attendance at the Brigadier's military installation
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S20E10 · Mawdryn Undead Part 2
Tegan tries to awaken the Brigadier’s memory

The Brigadier consults the worn leather attendance book to verify Tegan’s claim, flipping through its dog-eared pages with mechanical routine. Its bureaucratic precision becomes a tool for deflection—or a fragile bridge to memory—meshing only fitfully with the extraordinary claims being made before him.

Before: Resting open on the desk near a lamp, pages slightly fan-folded from regular use; entries neat but generic, representing routine administrative duty.
After: Still open but now slightly askew after being flipped through hastily, underscoring the dissonance between its mundane purpose and the conversation’s escalating strangeness.
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