Lina Dahl

Threshold Institute · Staff record

Name

Lina Dahl

Role

Surveyor and survey lead; Dahl's rule bears her name

Years

Years 24 to 40

First file

T-017 Shifting land

Last file

T-042 Endless Battery

Lina Dahl was a surveyor from the first survey on. She slept two nights in a ruin east of the camp, and the ground she slept on did not turn, which showed the Institute how ground was held (T-017). On the fourth survey she walked ahead of the team toward a low hum, stepped on a shimmer and was gone. Her radio answered the next morning from far across the land, beside a second shimmer like the first, and she walked back for two days with no food left (T-018). The rule that no surveyor walks toward an unexplained hum alone bears her name (T-018).

She walked into the first slow bubble and the first fast one with Viktor Saar (T-019, T-020), held Oskar Nyberg's rope at the well until the stone it was tied to came out of the ground (T-024), and led surveys of her own from year 28. Her eleventh survey found the copied camp (T-025), her twelfth met the trader (T-026), and in year 31 a survey under her lost every tin in one night to the clockwork (T-030). It was Dahl who answered the choir (T-029), and Dahl who called to Petr Lask on the ridge (T-031). On the fourth search the shard swarm went over her first, and the medical log counted forty-one cuts (T-033).

She went out with the retrieval runs afterwards. She found the watch running on a stair, wound it and walked down past a stalker that hung in the air in the middle of its blink (T-035). She fired the shot at the edge of the listening field that Rehn took back with the clock (T-037). She picked up the battery with bare hands and said it was like holding a cup of tea; by the line home her lips were blue (T-042).

Papers under their name

• Addendum T-018-1: interview with surveyor L. Dahl, Year 24, month 8, day 21. Interviewer: T. Rehn, in T-018 Twin rifts
• Addendum T-025-1: from L. Dahl's survey report, Year 28, month 1, day 20, in T-025 The copied camp
• Addendum T-026-1: trade log, Year 28, month 9, day 6. Kept by L. Dahl, in T-026 Trader

In the case files

Lina Dahl is named in 17 case files. The last column says where in each file.

Part III: Going through (the places and creatures)

File	Found	Where named
T-017 Shifting land	Year 24, month 3, day 9	Addendum T-017-1
T-018 Twin rifts	Year 24, month 8, day 17	Containment procedures, Discovery, Addendum T-018-1
T-019 Slow bubble	Year 25, month 2, day 4	Discovery
T-020 Fast bubble	Year 25, month 2, day 11	Discovery, Addendum T-020-1
T-022 The hanging moment	Year 26, month 4, day 21	Discovery
T-024 The well	Year 27, month 5, day 14	Addendum T-024-2
T-025 The copied camp	Year 28, month 1, day 19	Discovery, Addendum T-025-1
T-026 Trader	Year 28, month 9, day 6	Discovery, Addendum T-026-1
T-028 Tether	Year 29, month 12, day 8	Addendum T-028-2
T-029 Choir	Year 30, month 7, day 15	Addendum T-029-1
T-030 Clockwork	Year 31, month 4, day 2	Discovery, Addendum T-030-1
T-031 Hollow	Year 32, month 9, day 30	Addendum T-031-1
T-032 Cache mimic	Year 33, month 2, day 14	Discovery
T-033 Shard swarm	Year 33, month 2, day 15	Discovery, Addendum T-033-1

Part III: Going through (the objects)

File	Found	Where named
T-035 Still Watch	Year 34, month 9, day 2	Discovery, Addendum T-035-A
T-037 Rewind Clock	Year 36, month 1, day 27	Addendum T-037-A
T-042 Endless Battery	Year 40, month 8, day 30	Discovery