ten past three
The log since May:
05/09 03:12 05/24 03:12 06/03 03:13 06/20 03:12 07/06 03:12
Tonight I stayed up for it. Sitting on the tatami with the lights off, back against the wall, phone face down.
At 3:12 the corridor light came on. I could see it under the door, a yellow line. No steps on the stairs. Fourteen metal steps and they ring a little under a person, and I heard nothing.
Then the chime.
I looked at the screen. Railing, light, top of the stairs. Then the light went off again.
I didn't open the door.
The pothos is facing the oshiire again. I turned it every morning for seven weeks. I stopped turning it on Thursday, to see, and it took two days.
One more thing. On Thursday Hoshino-san stopped me at the post boxes and said, kindly, "You came home late last night. Ten past three. Work is hard?"
I was asleep on Wednesday night. I had earplugs in.